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Submitted to Contest #176
EXTRA INNINGS If my life was a baseball game, the story I’m about to tell you would begin somewhere in the third inning. It was the summer of 1977 to be more precise, and near the end of a challenging decade for my home team—the St. Louis Cardinals. The dismal times were hard on most fans of the team, but not me, because that mediocre stretch of baseball was how I met my friend Willy. William James Jonas was an elderly gentleman back in 1977, and would’ve been easy to pick out of a crowd thanks to the bright white shock of hair exploding...
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