An Irrevocable Condition: First Pitch in Oxford

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Fly away home, little boy. Fly from school and the people you don’t know and the games you don’t understand to a television transmission from inside the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley Field. When the old stadium still did not have lights, so they played their games during the day. When even the World Series was played during the day. When Florida did not have a professional team but Montreal did. Fly to the…