Baseball in October! It is the climax of an annual courtship between the U.S. male and his faster, stronger, younger self. As his favorite players dance through the 162-game season, a fan takes in the teasing thrills, the endless conversation. Then postseason nears, and his passion is stirred like a farm boy's anxious lust on prom night. Larry Andersen, the veteran relief pitcher, could have been defining America's obsession with professional sport when he said, "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever." And that goes for women as well as men, for dockworkers and day-care specialists....
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