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    Tom Clark (1941–2018)

    by Larry Bensky Aug 20, 2018 3 minutes

    Baseball card of Tom Clark (© 1990 Little Sun).

    For decades, as his health declined, Tom Clark lived on a busy street in Berkeley in a house with many steep stairs. Crossing, haltingly, one of those streets, he was struck by a car and killed on August 17.

    One of the last times I saw him, he made fun of himself for his frailty, for the way he had to pause while walking in the neighborhood, and pause even more when he tried to get to his front door. But though he could have, he refused to move. His surroundings—mainly

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