Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to miss hitting the ball, because I got to hit it more than anybody." Just as Henry Aaron's 755 home runs seem somehow more difficult to keep count of than Babe Ruth's 714, Rose's 4,256 hits will take a while displacing Ty Cobb's 4,191 as a mystical number in the record books. "Maybe if I was second in hits, games, at bats, doubles, runs scored, five-hit games, I'd feel differently," Rose says. "I just wish I'd made it to 2,000 winning games. I'm 28 short...
Poor Francis Phelan. Once he was something like "the Natural," an infielder for the Washington Senators, good glove man, top-of-the-lineup smile, tough as Ty Cobb sliding into second with his spikes flaring at the shortstop's groin. When baseball stardom eluded Francis, he tried being a husband to Annie -- best kisser in Albany -- and a father to Billy and Peg. That didn't work out either, so he hit the road and fell into the arms of Helen Archer, a singer who became a sod. There was some trouble with the law too: that scab...
...merger boom among firms. A large operation may acquire a "boutique firm" whose specialty it needs or absorb an established local operation to gain an instant foothold in another city. But as many as eight in ten mergers are illadvised, by the estimate of Houston Law Firm Consultant William Cobb. They can lead to a clash of egos among partners accustomed to independence, a ballooning of overhead costs or the mismatch of a loosely organized firm with a centrally operated...
...least I could construct some half-reasonable bases for choosing. I would root for the Tigers over the Twins. After all, they play on grass in an urban park. Moreover, this traditionalist remembers the old 8-team leagues with fondness, and tends to favor the survivors. Shades of Ty Cobb, and all that. The National League was even easier. I decided finally to let bygones be bygones. It has been almost 30 years after all--and San Francisco is a swell place. I would finally forgive Horace Stoneham and root for the old New York Giants on the West Coast...
...named the alleged coke supplier and a limousine driver she claimed had sometimes delivered the drug to her husband. The three police officers who had taken the statements from her were then transferred to lesser duties without explanation. That led U.S. Attorney Robert Barr, a former chairman of the Cobb County G.O.P. organization, to launch an obstruction-of- justice probe...