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Another season come and gone
\nwithout a hit, without a run,
\nwithout a homer o’er the fence
\nimagined once by circumstance.
\nNo uniform in sunset glow.
\nNo leaping catch, no hurried throw.
\nNo home run trot, no pickoff toss.
\nTime got the win. Age took the loss.<\/p>\n

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Another season come and gone without a hit, without a run, without a homer o’er the fence imagined once by circumstance. No uniform in sunset glow. No leaping catch, no hurried throw. No home run … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12,3,4],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-baseball","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":290,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=290","url_meta":{"origin":172,"position":0},"title":"Peg Legacy","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It was said that Chopin had some ivory in his fingernails. 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