Joe Morgan: MVP on and off the field
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Joe Morgan looked at the baseball he was handed and laughed. “I don’t want to jinx this,” he said. “But it’s a great idea for a picture, let’s do it.” The conversation took place on a bitterly cold Cincinnati night, November, 1975, following a banquet Morgan headlined. He had flown in from his Bay […]
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Lucky for fans Bob Gibson picked Baseball
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When legendary St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Dizzy Dean passed away, columnist Jim Murray wrote: “Dizzy let death dig in on him, something no other batter could do.” The same sentiment could be expressed about Bob Gibson, the best ever right handed St. Louis Cardinal pitcher, who passed away October 2 at the age of 84. […]
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Notorious RBG: A Study in Values
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Rabbi Jacob Weinstein once said, “You can’t tell the size of an evergreen until it is cut down.” With the recent death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurisprudence just lost — following the Rabbi Weinstein metaphor — a sequoia. Justice Ginsburg, agree with her politics or not, was a game changer. Her […]
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The Traveling Cremains of Dorothy Parker
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Fifty-three years after her death, Dorothy Parker’s cremains have just been buried in their forever home at Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York. This protracted ordeal began on June 7, 1967 when Parker died from a heart attack in her Manhattan hotel suite. The wry author and wisecracking mainstay of the famed Algonquin Round Table […]
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