Ty Cobb -Boston Herald 12-20-1930
Posted here (above):
“Ty Cobb, on 44th Birthday, Believes Baseball Today Is Less Attractive”
The Boston Herald
December 20, 1930
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I have similar feelings (some of which I have shared before) of discontent with baseball today.
“With no clock, no regulation of seconds, minutes, and hours, baseball need not submit to the inexorability of temporal limitation. … [A] team cannot stall, or run the ball into the line to kill the clock, or manipulate the clock in order to score. A tie game does not exist — all games must end in a victory and a defeat, and a tied game could conceivably go on forever. The game succeeds in creating a temporary timelessness perfectly appropriate to its richly cyclical nature.” — George Grella, “Baseball and the American Dream,” The Massachusetts Review
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Not true anymore!
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2024