Word: toobin
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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Thanks. I knew that there was something bothering me about this year's World Series. My gratitude goes out to you, Jeffrey R. Toobin, writer of the Box, for pointing out that it was that Pittsburgh and Baltimore are "aging industrial cities" that are only "an hour's plane ride apart." Pittsburgh aging? you must mean senile. As the headquarters of penny ante companies like U.S. Steel, Gulf Oil Corp., Alcoa and Westinghouse Electric Corp. it couldn't possibly be an industrially sophisticated city. Their baseball team naturally lacks sophistication because of this...
Last year's Series between LA and New York was so much more exciting because the cities are so far apart. A World Series between Topeka, Kansas and New Delhi, India would be fantastic. It was so nice of you. Mr. Toobin to make me realize this. I think that from now on the teams should be selected to play in the World Series on the basis of the distance between and the vitality of their cities and not by their abilities...
...Jeff Toobin and John Bruce both cracked four hits for the journalists, but Nieman fellow Frank Van Riper (N.Y. Daily News) was the big gun with a pair of towering triples...
...perhaps unintentionally--quite amusing: "Leaning back, hands behind his head, stretching into the plush leather made possible by another generation of Gardiners, he says, "God, I get psyched just thinking about it." It is understandable that Gardiner is "psyched" about his birth and wealth. I am puzzled that Jeffrey Toobin is. I am disturbed that The Crimson is. P. van Buren...