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We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.

~George Vecsey

Topics: After Carrying Cubs Did Heavy Heavy Weight Just Know Might Past Red Red Sox Ruth Series Some Sox Transgression Weight Win World World Series Years

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I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Any Bite Broke Collision Contact Cup Dead Dirty Elbows Eye First First World Foul French German Goalkeeper Ground Guy He His Just Kind Level Lying Outside Play Seen Teammates Thought World World Cup

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Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Another Been Between Certain Couple Cup Had Handshake Including Intact Line Players Remain Stanley Stanley Cup Traditions Weeks Who

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In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Against Army Artificial August Baseball Boston Five Former Game Heartwarming History Innings League Leg Major Major League Moments Only Out Pilot Remains Third Turn Washington Would

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I never watch 'Sopranos' reruns back home. As far as I am concerned, the nuclear family is still sitting around the luncheonette in New Jersey, munching and chatting, safe and together, and that's how it ended for me.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Am Around As Far As Back Chatting Concerned Ended Family Far Home How Jersey Me Never New New Jersey Nuclear Reruns Safe Sitting Sopranos Still Together Watch I Am

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In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Before Had Heard Him Information Internet Mysterious Never Novice Out Ozone Pointed Prehistoric Slender Soccer Socrates Somebody Tall Time Until Who

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Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Ball Caps Cold Eyes Far Head Keep More Off Out Statement Sun Than Travel Wide Your

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Yankee caps pop up all over the world, not as a statement of loyalty to that team, but as a symbol of - what? Winning 27 so-called World Series? Much of the world doesn't even play that sport.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Caps Even Loyalty Much Over Play Pop Series So-Called Sport Statement Symbol Team Up Winning World World Series Yankee

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There is nothing wrong with athletes coming back from retirement.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Athletes Back Coming Nothing Retirement Wrong

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Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Admire Baseball Brightest Comeback David Gesture Jim Much Pitchers Room Staged Success Three Times Without

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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