A baseball rests inside an open jewelry box lined with red satin and pale fabric.

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Phil

You're right I suppose, I mean, I guess it is childish. But when I was about 18 and my dad and I couldn't communicate about anything at all, we could still talk about baseball. Now that - that was real.

— City Slickers • 1991

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Phil admits baseball can seem childish. Yet at eighteen, when he and his dad struggled to talk about anything, the game was the one thing they could share. For him, that shared ground was what felt real.

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