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GARRISON KEILLOR
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Springtime is our time and viva sweet love
The beauty of May is that the whole country is more or less on the same page, called Spring, and Spring is Spring, in Minnesota or California or Georgia or Vermont. Slightly different birds and flowers, same feeling. April is blowing snow up north, and by June my friends in Georgia will be chained to their air conditioners, but here for a few weeks we are more unum than pluribus.
Maybe it's time to investigate the WWF
On October 3, 1951, after a storied pennant comeback race in which Brooklyn lost a 13-and-a-half game lead over the New York Giants, the Giants finally beat the Dodgers in a tie-breaking game that ended with Bobby Thomson's legendary three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth and also produced an immortal radio moment -- Russ Hodges repeatedly screaming "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" -- a recorded event that has remained familiar to succeeding generations by being used on television series like The Wonder Years, M*A*S*H, and Sports Night.
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