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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The Baseball Express

By Tangotiger, 01:35 PM

Chris Van Allsburg is to children’s books

...as Josh Wilker is to baseball:

1. Buy a pack of baseball cards. For best results, pay no more than a quarter and make sure the pack has a hard stick of gum sliding around loose inside. If packs long ago stopped costing a quarter or less and no longer include flour-flecked sticks of hard gum sliding around loose inside, the attainment of happiness may be impossible.

2. Carry the pack ...

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