“ The excellence of the game itself keeps dragging it back from the edge. Between the white lines, it remains a game of infinite possibilities. Anything can and will unfold from first pitch to last. It is why we watch and those of us lucky enough to write about it will never, ever, run out of story lines. Unremitting unpredictability and routinely wild surmise make the pastime our legal narcotic.
The Daily News’ Bill Conlin, this year’s J.G. Taylor Spink Award Winner, in his speech at the Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday.
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