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August for baseball fans is usually a month to contemplate home runs, pennant fever and World Series possibilities. The game's exotica, like base-stealing records, are condemned to wistful tavern afternoons. There, oldtimers can sip a brew or two and contemplate Ty Cobb's 96 high-spike steals in 1915, Maury Wills' well-plotted 104 in '62, and Lou Brock's legendary 118 eight years...
...S.M.A.P. reads that E.T. earned $17 million over the July 4 weekend, he remembers paying 25? to see Gone With the Wind. In fact, he remembers when Gone With the Wind's gross of $40 million established a record that was expected to stand forever, like Ty Cobb's 96 stolen bases or Babe Ruth's 60 homeruns...
...just Rose's appearance that seems old style but his manner. Rose with 3,793 hits is not merely chasing the snarling ghost of Ty Cobb (4,191 hits), he is Cobb. Delightfully coarse and direct, Pete "was asked by a New York Timesman if he knew much about Cobb. "I know everything about him but the size of his hat" was the quote that made the paper, though that was not what he said exactly. Rose does know almost every thing about Cobb-and about Babe Ruth. "First of all, Ruth al ways wore the same white robe...
...Jackson with a 356 B.A. 19. Al Downing of the Dodgers who like Aaron, also wore no 44. 20. The Angels were 86-76 in 1962. 21. On May 15, 1912 the Tigers went on strike for one day to protest the suspension of their best player, Ty Cobb. 22. Walt Dropo drove in 144 RBIs in 1950. 23. Gene Conley played for both the Celtics and Braves in 1957. 24. In 1972 Jim Barr of the Giants broke Pirate Harvey Huddi's record set in 1959. 25. Jerry Gibson, author of Big League Barbay,. 26. a) Monte Cross...
...Jack R Cobb Baltimore...