Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There are few epigrams better known (or if the truth be known, overused, but I ain’t letting that stop me) than this one from George Santayana. As my senescence advances, I recognize the irony that the more of the past you have experienced, the less likely you are to remember it accurately. And I’m perfectly willing to let kids flip bats on my lawn. And I remember Bob Gibson. The lesson that we’re supposed to take away from Gibson is that hitting batters is a lost art.