The pair's political lives have also developed in parallel.

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Mr. Barra's new book is "Mickey and Willie: The Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age, " out in May.

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It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government.

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