Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Keith Hamilton Cobb hates his steady job being a "bland" good guy on All My Children. So he's leaving for L.A. and more challenging roles. "I don't mind playing the scum of the earth if he can also recite Byron," he says. Wait a minute. Haven't we seen this episode before? Roger Howarth, sick of being a good guy, left One Life to Live for L.A. late last year. And where is he now? Back on One Life to Live...
This is an unworthy fear. By this time we should have learned to trust the cockeyed integrity of Ron Shelton, who directed and co-wrote (with John Norville) the film. Surely the movies' reigning poet of knucklehead machismo, the man who gave us Bull Durham and Cobb, will find an entertaining and instructive way for Roy to immolate himself...
...Like writer-director Ron (Bull Durham, Cobb) Shelton's other heroes, golfer Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a purist. His quest is not necessarily for the best score -->