Juiced 
David Runciman
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Inside a shopping mall in Fargo, North Dakota there is a museum dedicated to the memory of Roger Maris, one-time star of the New York Yankees and home run champion of baseball. When I visited in the mid-1990s I thought it was the saddest museum I had ever seen. The reason it lurks in the entrance to a mall – just a few glass-fronted displays of old shirts, balls and assorted memorabilia for people to glance at on their way to spend money on something else – is that Maris made it clear before his death from lymphoma at the age of 51 that he didn’t want anyone to make a fuss. They had made a fuss of him once before, and he hadn’t liked it at all.
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David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Pluralism and the Personality of the State, The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy.
Other articles by this contributor:
Cricket’s Superpowers · Beyond the Ashes
Why Not Eat an Eclair? · Why Vote?
This Way to the Ruin · the British Constitution
The Precautionary Principle · Taking a Chance on War
Tax Breaks for Rich Murderers · Bush and the ‘Death Tax’
The Cattle-Prod Election · The Point of the Polls
Diary · The Problem with English Football
Invented Communities · post-nationalism
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