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Tuesday, June 18, 2002

No sport in America has a finer literary pedigree than Baseball. For William Carlos Williams, Amiri Baraka, and Damon Runyon, the nine muses all wore baseball caps. Writer Molly O'Neill grew up in a baseball family and frequently draws on America's favorite pastime for inspiration.

The Andersen Conviction

Stephen Gillers Vice Dean of New York University Law School and Author of New York Times op-ed The Flaw....

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All About The Benjamins: Franklin's Thirteen Virtues

Randy Cohen Writes the "Ethicist" column for the New York Times Magazine and Author, The Good, The Bad &The Difference (Doubleday, 2002)

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A Literary Pastime

Nicholas Dawidoff Editor, Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2002) And Molly O'Neill Staff Writer for the New Yorker and Contributor, Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2002) http://www.nytimes.com And Roy Blount, Jr. Writer and Contributor, Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2002)

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