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...South, two House races have highlighted the deepening rift between newly powerful black voters and the liberal Establishment of the Democratic Par ty. One is a rerun of a 1982 race between incumbent Republican Webb Franklin and Democrat Robert Clark, a State representative seeking to become Mississippi's first black Congressman since 1883. Many blacks complained bitterly two years ago that white Democrats failed to support Clark on racial grounds, and they seriously considered running an independent black in the state's all-white Senate race this year in retaliation. New boundaries have raised the proportion...
...lanes today first can't accept the proposition that any of the old timers could have measured up to today's stars in term of pure athletic ability. The arguments is advanced that today's major league players are drawn from a prospective player pool far wider than in Ty Cobb's heyday, so that the best are truly the best, not simply the luckiest. Still by any standards, Ty Cobb was the greatest player of his own generation, possessing a talent and mania for victory that would undoubtedly have made for success in any era of the game...
Unforturately, Alexander doesn't give a satisfying glimpse into some of the broader issues surrounding baseball's early days of the 1910s and '20s as he dwells almost exclusively in effects on the stuff of fanatics the statistics, games and lore of Ty Cobb's baseball career and not enough on the tuff of the social historians for example what effect the emerging game had on American life. He hints at such a subject-for instance in his discusion of Cobb's tumultuous relationship with the fans-but leaves even the most rabid fan slightly testy as the outlines Cobb...
Alexander is keenly aware of trying to use baseball at large, and Ty Cobb is particular, to strike some larger themes. Just in his description of Cobb's evolving domestic life--from his childhood in Georgia through his two marriages--Alexander gives some personal sense of changing American lifestyles. And he hints tantalizingly at the industrial renaissance sweeping America in his fascinating discussion of Cobb's business acumen. For example, Cobb held massive investments in Coca Cola, which led to a lifelong security most ball players of his era, even the stars, never realized...
...second time; in Cincinnati. Rose hoped to celebrate the occasion by getting his 4,000th career hit in his home town, against the Cincinnati Reds, but failed. On his next outing, the day before his birthday, he doubled against the Phillies in Montreal and became the second man, after Ty Cobb in 1927, to reach...