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You probably aren’t much in the mood for a history lesson. Not on the morning after we said goodbye to baseball. Not with the bitterness of the Yankees’ 5-2 loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday night still fresh in your memory. Not with this decisive 3-1 schooling in the ALDS still ringing in your ears. That’s fair enough.

So I’ll only briefly introduce you to a man named Ren Mulford Jr., one of the very first baseball writers, who mostly earned his living for “The Sporting Life” ’round the turn of the 19th Century. It was Mulford who, in 1913, wrote the following sentence as a fare-thee-well to that se

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