Saturday, October 13, 2012

Beano Cook, college football...

...analyst, died at age 81. From the Times obit:

His most famous line, oddly enough, concerned baseball. When Iran released the American hostages in 1981, Mr. Cook had a quick response on hearing that the baseball commissioner, Bowie Kuhn, was giving them lifetime passes to major league games: “Haven’t they suffered enough?”

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