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Terence Mann: Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it's money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered they're heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. And the memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh,.. people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
wil.
Terence Mann: Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it's money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered they're heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. And the memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh,.. people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
wil.
"I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth —that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you."--Lou Gehrig
Hear Lou Gerig's Farewell at Yankee Stadium
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Clemente....none more traggic, the good will mission back to Nicaragua , the plane going down on New Years eve...I believe his family had feared this would happen...The end of his life was very eerie....Also finishing right on 3000 hits, like someone knew that was his last game...
Other notable athletes who left way too early...
Dan Quisenberry(Brain Cancer), Lyman Bostock(Murdered), Wille Stargell (some freak illness),Dick Howser(Brain Cancer),Hank Gathers(Heart trouble),Lyle Alzado(Cancer),Len Bias(drugs), Joe Delaney(drowned),Reggie Lewis(heart attack),Darryl Porter,Mike Webster,Stacy Toran,John Matusek,Dave Dalby,John Unitas,Rickey Bell,Brian Piccolo,Derrick Thomas...long list, many more
Other notable athletes who left way too early...
Dan Quisenberry(Brain Cancer), Lyman Bostock(Murdered), Wille Stargell (some freak illness),Dick Howser(Brain Cancer),Hank Gathers(Heart trouble),Lyle Alzado(Cancer),Len Bias(drugs), Joe Delaney(drowned),Reggie Lewis(heart attack),Darryl Porter,Mike Webster,Stacy Toran,John Matusek,Dave Dalby,John Unitas,Rickey Bell,Brian Piccolo,Derrick Thomas...long list, many more
