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Can Mo’ne Davis and Taney have a real impact on the future of baseball? (Evan Habeeb, USA TODAY Sports)

Mo’ne Davis is the best kind of overnight sensation, a blithe young woman with a quiet sense of humor who can strike out all the boys.

For a sports world bloated with stats and commentary and pseudo-controversy, she brings the power of authenticity. And so you watch.

But what is happening in South Williamsport, around Davis and the Taney club from Philadelphia that has illuminated the Litt

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Many of us live in conflict. This is sad, but true.

It is particularly sad because we all want so desperately to live in peace. We want lives free from conflict.

I think we do many things wrong, that end up causing us even more conflict. While most of us don’t go looking for a fight, I’m not sure how much effort people expend to be ‘peace makers,’ or even ‘peace keepers.’

“I just want to live in peace,” a fifty-year old man recently said to me. “I’ve been at odds with my wife for years. I just

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