Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man ge… - Roger Kahn

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Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory.

Roger Kahn

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Roger Kahn (31 October 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his writings on baseball and for his 1972 memoir, The Boys of Summer. A Sports Illustrated panel selected The Boys of Summer as the greatest of all baseball books.

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Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory. - Roger Kahn

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