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...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...
...Shoeless" Joe 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...
Grumbled Denis Healey, the Labor Par ty's shadow Foreign Secretary: "The time has come when we must tell the U.S. that the attitude of an evenhanded broker is not quite enough." In contrast, Prime Minister Thatcher and her ministers last week accepted the fact that Haig had to take a public stance of neutrality, but the British government made it clear to the Secretary that it would expect the U.S. to change its posture if his mediating talks failed; the U.S. would be expected to join in the European trade and economic sanctions against Argentina. Warned a British...
...Boys the games in Winter Haven are played not so much against the opposing team as against other games in the past. There are ghosts on the field in the middle distance. Caterino remembers seeing Walter Johnson pitch and Ty Cobb tear up the bases. He can recall when an overflow Red Sox crowd, seated in a roped-off section of centerfield, parted like the Red Sea when the graceful Tris Speaker faded back to run down a fly. Fegan saw his first Red Sox game in 1911. As the Colonel says, "When...
Armada described these stories as fabri cations. Appearing be fore cadets at the Zaragoza Military Academy last week, Juan Carlos rejected the charge that he was involved. Said he: "We were not wrong to choose liber ty and justice to build a pluralistic society in a united Spain...