“I read that the term "nostalgia" originated in a seventeenth-century medical student's dissertation, when he mixed the Greek work nostos, "return to the native land," with algos, "suffering, grief," to describe the madness of mercenaries who spent all their lives moving and trying to remember. It was classified as a potentially fatal disease. Isn't that crazy? To die from wanting to return. But I miss things that were never mine, want to return to a place, more of a feeling, that never really existed, and doesn't baseball always promise that there was once something more?”