The End Of Another Season Of Baseball

Monday, October 30, 2006 - by Tim Evearitt
The autumn leaves have begun to fall.

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The autumn leaves have begun to fall. Click to enlarge photo
- photo by Tim Evearitt

It's the start of another week -- the final days of October and the arrival of November. But it's not just any week. It's the start of a week without baseball. With the completion of the World Series, the game is over for another season.

It's gone, and I will miss it.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chilly rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

The anticipation of another glorious springtime.

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The anticipation of another glorious springtime. Click to enlarge photo
- Photo2 by Tim Evearitt

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