Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

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Memory. 

He had a great one.

Mullins, the baseball broadcaster had come to speak to career day at school, told a story, got a fact wrong. For the first time in Richard Bonner’s shy, nerdy life, he took a chance.  He raised his hand. Mullins said, “yes, son?”

“The throw came in from Iglesias, the right fielder, not from center. And Whitfield wasn’t in cente…

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