Word: cobb
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Robert P. Cobb, executive vice-chancellor of KU, said yesterday that university lawyers are still studying the situation and the university will make a formal statement sometime next week after the Kansas state attorney general concludes his investigation of the situation...
...Though Cobb refused comment on the possibility of an FBI investigation, he said yesterday that university officials are "unwilling to curtail the civil liberties of a few students in order to protect other students and faculty members...
...Phillies, who took as many as 400 swings every day against an automatic pitching machine. Rose, 40, tied Stan Musial's National League record of 3,630 hits two days before the strike began, and doubts that lost playing time will wreck his chance of topping Ty Cobb's record of 4,191 hits. "If I get close enough to Cobb's record," says Rose, "Johnson & Johnson will keep me together long enough to make...
DIED. Daniel Daniel, 91, for more than half a century a leading writer on baseball and boxing and a founder and former editor of Ring magazine; after surgery for a stomach tumor; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Daniel covered baseball from 1909, the heyday of Ty Cobb, until the 1974 World Series, which he reported for the Sporting News, mostly for the now defunct New York World-Telegram and New York World-Telegram...
Some players will pay a sort of professional price for the strike. Pete Rose, for example, is looking to surpass Ty Cobb's record of 4,191 hits and become baseball's alltime hit leader; Rose is at 3,630 now, but at 40, will need another few seasons to catch Cobb. Indeed, he needs only one more hit to pass Stan Musial; he got a hit last week-in a softball game in Cincinnati. Tom Seaver of the Reds needs 48 wins to join that select group of pitchers with 300 career victories; at 36, he cannot...