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On Being with Krista Tippett
This memoir, described as a riff on middle age, marriage, fatherhood, and failure, uses baseball as a structuring device. The interviewee discussed how it addresses issues of depression and the search for meaning in life.
In 2009, he published his second memoir, which he called a riff on middle-aged, marriage, fatherhood and failure and titled The Fifth Ending.
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Episode: E. Ethelbert Miller — Black and Universal
This memoir, described as a riff on middle age, marriage, fatherhood, and failure, uses baseball as a structuring device. The interviewee discussed how it addresses issues of depression and the search for meaning in life.
In 2009, he published his second memoir, which he called a riff on middle-aged, marriage, fatherhood and failure and titled The Fifth Ending.
in baseball, The Fifth Ending can represent a complete game. The structure of this book consists of balls and strikes. Balls and strikes can also stand for BS. How much is thrown at a person by the time they reach 50? When BS becomes just B, it might represent not balls but the blues.
The last line of the fifth inning is all I know is baseball.