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Reflecting on how a student's parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student's parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of...

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Main Authors: Root, Robert L, Root, Robert L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Series:Sightline books
Subjects:
Root, Robert L
Root, Robert L > Childhood and youth.
Root, Robert L > Family.
Chance
Geology > Niagara Escarpment
Families
Geology
Lockport (N.Y.) > Biography
New York (State) > Lockport
North America > Niagara Escarpment
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biography
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