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...Party (P.R.D.), people should look at his record while he was governor of the state of Michoacan and belonged to the long-ruling authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). The younger generation in Mexico had better examine this old "dinosaur" carefully. He is a castoff, passed over and recycled. JAY COBB Eaton, Ohio...
...used to envy Grantland Rice. Part of my jealousy had to do with the desire to write phrases like "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky..." But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and '30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, Red Grange, the Brown Bomber, the Four Horsemen and the Four Musketeers...
...Brett Heckman, an attorney for Nathan Hall, yesterday. Hall, 18, is being prosecuted in the death of Alan Cobb, a skier with whom he collided while on the job as a ski resort employee. Prosectuors are arguing that a speeding skier is a weapon, much the same way as is a bat or a piece of wood...
...Baseball Hall of Fame was not formed to honor good people. If it were, Mother Teresa would be a member, and Ty Cobb, a vicious player who once attacked a man with no arms, would not. The Hall honors players for their proficiency on the field. Pete Rose holds the career records for hits, at bats and games played. No organization can claim to enshrine the best players in baseball if it does not count Rose as one of its members...
Nicknamed "Charlie Hustle," Rose was an fan favorite who often adorned the covers of sports magazines and Wheaties boxes. Unfortunately, like many Hall of Famers, he was only a role model when he stood between the foul lines of a baseball field. The aforementioned Cobb was allegedly a miserable human being. Babe Ruth was purported to be an irresponsible drunk. Mickey Mantle was an admitted alcoholic. It is time for the Hall to stop pretending that it canonizes saints. It should elect Pete Rose to its ranks...