America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But, baseball has marked the time. This field, this game—it’s part of our past, Ray.

They’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come, Ray.

-Terrance Mann