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"The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor."
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"Baseball leads its fans through various aspects of mental skill development—pattern recognition, numerical calculation, correlation, inferencing, understanding of uncertainty, probability, risk and reward. It also teaches that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. In baseball as in other fields, as soon as we master received wisdom, we tend to assume we know more than we do. It’s one thing to be conversant in a field, but it’s entirely another to grasp the limits of one’s own understanding. Baseball has taught me many times that I’ve been quite wrong about something, after I had been utterly convinced by my detailed knowledge that I must be right. Expertise does not automatically confer wisdom, or even correctness."
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Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team is to hit the ball into t
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