Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Sox," as they came to be known, were hounded out of organized baseball and into the oblivion that the team owners believed they deserved. Even "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, a lifetime .356 hitter whom his contemporaries compared with Ty Cobb, is recalled today chiefly for the plea addressed to him by a disbelieving boy: "Say it ain't so, Joe." The conditions that impelled him and his teammates to take money from gamblers -- low pay, lack of security and a general feeling of involuntary servitude -- have long since been overturned. Free agency, binding arbitration and other Big Business behavior...
...house in House is a mid-sized gothic mansion filled with antique knick-knacks. That's where our hero, a best-selling novelist and sensitive Vietnam War veteran Roger Cobb (William Katt) goes to write his war memoirs...
...depriving it of a Yankee-Dodger World Series in lieu of a Mariner-Giant baseball battle, akin to depriving it of a Celtic-Laker Championship in lieu of a Cavalier-Maverick hoop hoedown, or akin to depriving it of an Ali-Frazier replay in lieu of a Tex Cobb-Ed "Too Tall" Jones boxing bout...
...vendetta against the irascible genius who batted .367 over 24 seasons, though relative merits are always debatable (see box). Rose has decided "you couldn't be that bad a guy and get 4,191 hits." And he has known all along "you can't compare Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb with Peter Rose and (Boston's .349-batting) Wade Boggs. I respect all of the old-timers. They did what they had to do against the competition they had to play against. The travel was better in those days; the surfaces are better today. But if you start arguing dead...
...crisp single to the opposite field, his trademark for 23 summers, Rose displaces Ty Cobb as baseball' s most prolific hitter. The long- awaited drama has an unexpected poignancy, with the great Cincinnati roughneck in tears amid a sea of cheers. Others still weep for the sport. At the Pittsburgh drug trial, no name is inviolate, not even Willie Mays...