Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tales of Tomorrow (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Lee J. Cobb in Test Flight...
...year career that had made the youngster from the San Francisco fishing wharfs a public idol almost overnight. Modest to the point of reticence, and a moody introvert at times, Joe has always lacked the flash and dash of a Babe Ruth or a Ty Cobb; he was a perfectionist of the diamond, a picture player in the Frank Chance tradition. No catch ever looked tough, the way Joe loped up and cradled it. No stance at the plate-bat poised and feet widespread-was ever so widely imitated. None could match the easy swinger who banged out 361 homers...
Other potential Ike men can already be spotted. In Massachusetts, both Senators Lodge and Saltonstall are ready; so is Congressman Christian Herter. There is Nebraska's Governor Val Peterson, Arkansas' State Chairman Orso Cobb. In Texas, there is Jack Porter, oilman-turned-politician, who was the G.O.P.'s candidate for the Senate in 1948. In Los Angeles, a group of Stassen supporters headed by Lawyer David Saunders are talking Ike, but a California politician explained: "We're lying in the weeds, waiting for the right opportunity to spring. The politicians' hands are tied...
Recently, hearing that Heilmann was seriously ill, Cobb wrote to several of his baseball-writer friends, urging them not to bypass Harry in this year's selections. Last week New York Times Columnist Arthur Daley printed part of Cobb's letter, agreed that Heilmann's election was, long overdue. The appeal came too late. At last week's All-Star game in Detroit, 50,000 fans stood and observed a moment of silence. The day before, Harry Heilmann, 56, had died of cancer in Detroit...
...Cobb (.367), Rogers Hornsby (.358), Dan Brouthers (.348), Ed Delahanty (.346), Willie Keeler (.345), Tris Speaker (.344). Babe Ruth and Jess Burkett also...