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Old Timers Day not worth return visits

By Ace Parker

Monday, March 12, 2007

After retirement, I soon found that aerobic walking and volunteer work at the Queens Central Library taping books for the blind were fine, but not nearly enough to fill the long days and nights, and I searched for something else.

That something else took shape when a baseball-writing friend, the late Lawrence Ritter, suggested I join the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

Larry Ritter, by the way, was not only a retired college professor, but he wrote what baseball experts deem the greatest book ever written on the “Grand Old Game” — a marvelous book titled, “The Glory of Their Times.”

In SABR, the hot stove league’s fires burn all year ’round, and those pot-bellied stoves never run out of coal.

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Rod Nelson