...this Christobal Torriente APBA game card from the Negro League's set—these with no pictures now, more like a playing card with crisp columns of red numbers that work with a different language to describe another kind of beauty—so just the way mathematicians can refer to a formula as elegant because it conjures perfectly for them a complex form, or an insane configuration of knots or the shape of a relationship—so too the Torriente game card at its most basic is a fast-motion numerical movie of howling triples and stolen bases and line drives to all fields, of a virtuoso at the art of getting on base.
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