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You may not feel it right now, but spring is in the air

Staff Columnist
Published Thursday, February 21, 2008

Two years ago this week, a neighbor stopped me on our block and pulled out a piece of paper, on which was printed a quotation:

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

The quotation came from Bart Giamatti, the only person to serve both as commissioner of Major League Baseball and as president of Yale University. Giamatti, a scholar of...

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