Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite all this ineptitude, baseball accidentally saved itself, with a mixture of talent and nostalgia. The geriatric sport has suddenly remembered how to tell its own story. ESPN ads feature not McGwire or the eminently marketable Griffey, but a Ty Cobb impersonator, who is oddly recognizable for a guy who hasn't played a game since...
...spent almost his entire pro career working for tactician-manager Tony LaRussa (who makes decisions based on numbers crunched in his dugout Macintosh Powerbook), but McGwire doesn't need the coach's signs. His job is hit rock with stick. He is more elemental than even Ruth or Cobb. He is refusing, for now, to sit down with most media, even charming, likable media who dressed really nicely to meet him last week...
...need to know more about the values thatunderlie the attachment you have to this place,"Cobb said...
...history of this project has alreadydeveloped an intense anxiety which manifestsitself in the belief that nothing should happenhere," Cobb said. "I cannot start from thatconviction...
...Henry N. Cobb '47, whose firm, Pei Cobb Freedand Partners, agreed to take on the project; andLaurie Olin, former chair of Landscapearchitecture at the Harvard Graduate School ofDesign, whose Philadelphia firm was recentlyengaged to consult on the Knafel Center, werepresent at the meeting...