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Article: Stories about Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams are still relished. (Warm Up Tosses).(Column)
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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THERE ARE TIMES IN A COLUMNIST'S LIFE WHEN HE OR SHE ENCOUNTERS A creative period as arid and virtually lifeless as the El Centro desert in Southern California where the temperature can soar as high as 120 degrees in summer.
And, at this very moment, as your host is reaching out for an idea, he feels as though he is stuck out there in that dry, barren land east of San Diego, accompanied only by tumbleweed, prickly cacti and razor-sharp brambles.
But, suddenly my imagination catches sight of a life-saving "water station" labeled "Nostalgia."
So, I'll quickly get out of this rambling introduction, and return to the first "Warm Up Tosses" column I ...