 seeing her asleep, a shower of well-thumbed baseball cards scattered across her chest and pillow. I have been able to tell my wife it is like my compatriots and I are involved in a ritual for true believers only. Maggie, who knew me when I still dreamed of playing professionally myself, Maggie, after over half a lifetime together, comes and sits in my lap in the comfortable easy chair which has adjusted through the years to my thickening shape, just as she has,