<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420194" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Babe Bows Out 06-13-1948</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stands are full of cheering fans<br>As I wait to say goodbye.<br>My bat serves as a crutch for me<br>just weeks before I’ll die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This day in June is cold and gray, <br> windy, overcast and bitter.<br>No warmth touches my wasted frame, <br> I’m a mere shadow of a hitter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grandstands are abuzz with life<br>I shed a single tear.<br>I always was a man apart, <br>Larger than life, I hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My lusts and appetites were great-<br>more than a mortal man’s-.<br>but the syllogisms true<br>And that is all I am. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They do not know, they cannot know<br>about my hopes and fears.<br>They see just the fading icon<br>Of their own glory years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420194" data-title="The Babe Bows Out 06-13-1948 de John F. McCullagh" data-description="The stands are full of cheering fans As I wait to say goodbye. My bat serves as a crutch for me just weeks before I’ll die. This day in June is cold and gray, windy, overcast and bitter. No warmth touches my wasted frame, I’m a mere shado..."></div> </div> </div>

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