Renaissance man

During the eighteenth century a remarkable change swept over Europe. The dominant spirit of the time ceased to be artistic as in the Renaissance, or religious as in the Reformation, or military as during the savage civil wars that had followed. The central figure of the world was no longer a king, nor a priest, nor a general. Instead, the man on whom all eyes were fixed, who towered above his fellows, was a mere author, possessed of no claim to notice but his pen. This was the age of the arisen intellect. The rule of Louis XIV, both in its splendor and its wastefulness,...

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Prior to August 2001 I was not personally acquainted with George Sisler, Jr., the eldest son of old-time baseball player George Sisler. His name was quite familiar, however, frequently appearing in local newspapers during the 1980s when he was the general manager of the Clippers, the New York Yankees Triple-A affiliate in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio. As a lifelong baseball fan, whenever I heard the name I made the connection to his father, but I never seriously thought much about the elder Sisler’s baseball career or his place in baseball history. That was about to change....

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