Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the soft goals, Mazzoleni, stuck with Jonas, who at 14:01 of the first had made a spectacular glove save on a mini-breakaway by Ryan Cox...
...neighbors put forth a lot of effort...we came up with compromise language that appeased both the city and community interests," said Chief Public Health Officer Harold D. Cox...
There are some who say that Atlanta cannot be considered a great team, or the Braves' Bobby Cox a great manager, if they can squeeze only one world championship out of eight consecutive first-place finishes. They forget that the Orioles' Earl Weaver, generally acknowledged to be the best manager of the post-expansion era, pulled only one championship out of six firsts, and he never had to chain-smoke his way through three rounds of play-offs. Cox could have retired last Friday and history would recognize him as the outstanding manager that...
Like Weaver's, Cox's success--Atlanta's success--has been built on three foundations: starting pitching, starting pitching and starting pitching. Like Weaver, Cox has excelled at identifying four strong arms and keeping all of them healthy. Pitching coach Leo Mazzone, who has been at Cox's side for the entire decade, says, "Pitchers are cared for here." Other teams, he says, "blame their pitchers--'Oh, we lost it on our pitching.' Those are the teams that won't be in a World Series anytime soon." Seven of the past eight National League Cy Young Awards sit on Atlanta...
...tough job it is too, as is Cox's. If the Series that concludes this epic play-off season goes the full seven games through Sunday, one of the managers is going to wake up the next morning and have to face two ugly realities: losing and November...