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Other than that, the Bronx Bombers were unable to do anything with Splittorff, a Yankee killer all year, and Kansas City held on to take a 1-0 lead in the five-game series...
...Koch is typical of many New Yorkers reared in the urban equivalent of the log cabin. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who lived in The Bronx when the two boys and their kid sister Pat were small. After the father's modest fur business failed during the Depression, the family operated a cloakroom concession in a Newark catering hall...
...myself on my brilliance. I came back after the second mile and heard rustling in the bushes. It was Ed Sheehan down on his hands and knees and I no longer congratulated myself on my brilliance. "With Sheehan out of the running, it was all over except for the Bronx Cheer...
...declares, "I have no pity for people who screw up their lives, no patience. There are so many people lost and it's their fault..." Nice guy, that Mr. K. Nice to hear how he and his partner used to sell water for five cents a glass in the Bronx as kids. Horatio Alger's heroes had nothing...
...CONDUCTOR who preferred a Bronx cheer to apathy would likewise probably prefer to be remembered as an egotist--that he wasn't--than be forgotten. For with his quirks and bitter sarcasm we inevitably associate his idiosyncratic genius and adventurous spirit--sometimes fatal to the ambitious musician's career, but always vital...