Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cooley is a demon for speed. In his first heart transplant, he performed the actual implantation of the donor organ in Everett C. Thomas' chest in 31 min. His second, for Recipient James B. Cobb, took 42 min. Cooley's third transplant, which took about 30 min., raised a legal question. The heart came from Clarence Nicks, 32, who died after being beaten in a barroom brawl. Nicks showed no brain-wave activity and had had no reflexes for hours before his doctors shut off the machine that had been oxygenating the blood in his lungs. There...
Other Harvard players who fattened their batting averages were Pete Karageannes, Bill Cobb, and Carter Lord, each with two hits...
...career as major-league pitcher accounts for one of baseball's oldest and least wanted records-most runs given up in nine innings; of a kidney ailment; in Philadelphia. On May 18, 1912, when the Detroit Tigers angrily refused to play a game with the Athletics (after Ty Cobb was suspended for hitting a fan three days before), Travers, then a student at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, was one of a group of sandlotters recruited to face the A's. The fans were mightily amused, but the pros showed no mercy, bombing Travers...
...Crimson attack could muster only eight hits, three from the bat of third baseman Bill Cobb. Harvard's three leading sluggers, Jeff Grate, John Ignacio and captain Carter Lord, accounted for only two hits among them...
Jack Turco lined a shot to shortstop; and on the double play attempt Lord was cut off at second, Ignacio moved to third, and Cobb scored...