“Baseball is built to betray - the higher you move within its ranks, the more inevitable the disappointment. But the pressure of playing for the Nyack Indians seems to have created abnormally deep scars for Pat and his former teammates.”
“With the game on the line, you wanted Pat up. He took hundreds of hours of batting practice and played with a sense of duty that felt weighted by the generations of his family who had played ball in Nyack.”
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