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Jane Leavy has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as…
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There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly,…
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When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York…
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On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and…
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He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many…
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Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.
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Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great,…
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman…
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Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was…
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There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom…
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Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision,…
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Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who…
— Unknown Author
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When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with…
— Pete Rose
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Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb...…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
— Unknown Author
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I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.
— Gerry Cooney
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The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.
— George Sisler
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He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his…
— Jimmy Cannon
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In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot…
— Roy Clarke
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
— Babe Ruth
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Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was…
— Jane Leavy
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I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.
— Pete Rose
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Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I…
— John McGraw
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