Time Essay: To an Athlete Getting Old

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Last year another Princeton man, Bill Bradley, retired after ten years with the New York Knicks. In his book Life on the Run, Bradley wrote of "the Faustian bargain" that the pro athlete makes: in return for glory, he must eventually "live all [his] days never able to recap ture the feeling of those few years of intensified youth."

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