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...Winning bid of Peter Siegel, a memorabilia collector, for the contract that sent Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees...
Cobb's patented hands-apart grip made him a nonpareil singles and doubles hitter, but furnished him with little power. Or so it seemed. In the Babe Ruth epoch, when Cobb was criticized for failing to hit the long ball, he went on record: "I'm going for home runs for the first time in my career." That day he went six for six: two singles, a double and three home runs. The following game he hit two more homers. The Peach had made his point; he hit just seven more home runs that season, and only...
...times of the games, the exclusion of black players in Cobb's day may be the best point on Rose's side of the comparative arguments. But Cobb would not have had it any other way. Racist remarks, particularly about Negro ancestry, were his favorites. Even the affamble Babe chided him, "I don't mind being called a son of a bitch or a bastard, but ... none of that personal stuff...
...team, the Minnesota Twins, was another wonder of happenstance. But his shorter ration of the day's glory was predictable. When Carew said, "I'm just very glad it's over," the sigh recalled Henry Aaron's relief in 1974 after hitting the 715th home run that bettered Babe Ruth. "Aaron was as good as Willie Mays," Pete Rose thinks, "just not as famous." In the year of Rose's assault on Ty Cobb, Carew took his usual place in the off-light with a practiced grace...
...obsession and guilelessness. Gerald Ford, of course, "made golf a contact sport." Reagan "once broke 100 and that's pretty good for a man on horseback." Hope saves his real affection for celebrities little known for their low handicaps, including Humphrey Bogart and Ruby Keeler. The wildest amateur: Babe Ruth. The smoothest: Joe Louis. Even nongolfers can enjoy the gossip, the jokes and some 100 black-and-white photographs of performers and politicians. Although Hope claims that his scores are now closer to his weight than his age, his follow-through has seldom been better...