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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | October 23, 1929 issue

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Baseball is deservedly known as the national sport of the U.S., for in the World Series just ended in triumph for the Athletics it was evident that the games contained most: of the characteristic phases of American life. The factors which went into the final decision were shrewdness, skill, sentimentality, and downright luck. Politics, industry, and the arts are made up of these selfsame elements. Perhaps luck should not have been placed last in the list. On the whole the business of master minding was jolted.

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BASEBALL -- Tournaments; BALL games; SPORTS; BASEBALL; ATHLETICS; UNITED States
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