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A club for listeners like you.

You can now join the Circle Round Club and enjoy a bunch of new, fun and exciting ways to circle around with us.

Club memberships come in all shapes and sizes.

You can find the one that's right for you and your family at wbur.org slash Circle Round Club.

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As you're listening right now, the Circle Round team is busy creating a whole new season of stories for you.

Dozens of folk tales from around the world featuring fantastic actors from the stage and screen.

So today we're bringing you a special encore edition from season two of Circle Round.

A story that really resonates with us right now as people across the country are talking about race and equality, diversity and inclusion.

We'll be back with a brand new story soon.

Here's a fun fact.

Did you know there are nearly eight billion people in the world?

And get this, if you were to say hello to all of them one person at a time, it would take you more than 200 years.

But the cool thing is, even with so many people on earth, no two of us are the same.

We're all different.

And in today's story, different is the name of the game.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called the Great Ball Game.

Versions of this tale come from the Cherokee, Creek, a jibway and monomony people of North America.

Some really great folks came together to bring you our telling of this story, including William Jackson Harper,

who stars in NBC's Hit Comedy series The Good Place, opposite Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.

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