Sport: Savoring the Extra Innings After 40

For Pete Rose and Carl Yastrzemski, it is a very good year

Baseball is a boy's game. "If you ever lose the little boy in you," shudder the fat men and the bald men in the knickers and the beanies, "well. . ." Well, it's over, that's all. You can lose a step, even two. You can lose the hop on your fastball, though you may have to learn a knuckler. But if you ever grow up, you can't be a Lost Boy any more. Sorry, those are the rules of never-never land.

If Pete Rose...

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