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A ballplayer, bat in hand and crowned with laurels, makes his way to the club house, proudly ignoring as he passes a dour-looking woman helping her elderly father, who is stooped, wearing a patched uniform, floppy cap, and spectacles, and carrying a cane. Both eye the ballplayer with scorn.

So Tom, he passed her up for good, and now she wonders why
Them cruel words unto him once she said.

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