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Lamentation: California Angels, October 1986

By Jean Hastings Ardell

Baseballtimeless game of inchesprecise geometric marvelfrom dusty clay and grassy turf The wonderful certainty of the final strikebut the gods mock—it's over when it's over Dreams of what might have beenlinger, drifting through the dreamsand warming the bones of child-fanswho know better But still, stillall winter longwait for next year    JEAN HASTINGS ARDELL lives in Corona Del Mar, California, where she works as a writer, editor, and teacher, with baseball a continuing subject of interest. She is author . . .

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