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Gordon Cobbledick

Edgy MD
Jul 21 2020 08:50 AM

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Born: December 31, 1898, Cleveland Heights,OH

Died: October 2, 1969, Tucson, AZ



Joined USMC: February 11, 1918



Honors:

J. Taylor Spink Award (posthumously), 1977

Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame inductee (posthumously), 2007

"Gordon Cobbledick Golden Tomahawk Award" presented by the BBWAA Cleveland chapter annually to the most "under-rated" player on the Indians from 1963-2002.





Cleveland Plain Dealer
[list]

  • [*]police reporter, 1924-1927

  • [*]sports writer, 1927-1944,

  • [*]war correspondent, 1944-1945,

  • [*]editorial columnist, 1945-1946,

  • [*]sports editor, 1946-1964.
    • [/list]

    Cleveland Times
    [list]
  • [*]editorial writer, 1927
    • [/list]

    Other Publications:
    [list]
  • [*]Don't Knock the Rock: The Rocky Colavito Story (World Publishing Company, 1966)

    • [/list]

    Filmography:
    [list]
  • [*]The Kid from Cleveland (Republic Pictures, 1949, dir. by Herbert Kline)

    (Himself, uncredited)

    • [/list]

    Selected Journalism:
    [list]
  • [*]"Babe Ruth Hits 500th Homer; Ball Is Found," Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 12, 1929.

  • [*]"Cries of Dying Spoil V-E Day for Okinawa," Chicago Tribune, May 9, 1945.

  • [*]"Sports Editor Gordon Cobbledick considers the beanball and decides it is here to stay—unless some means is found to outlaw wildness high and inside while sanctioning it low and outside," Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954.

  • [*]"Ace Firemen Make Managers Smart," Baseball Digest, September 1956.

  • [*]"Records Prove It's Speaker Over DiMag!," Baseball Digest, October 1958.

  • [*](No specific byline captures the totality of the story, but apparently some of his most signature work was covering the Cleveland Indians' players revolt against manager Ossie Vitt. Reportedly (I couldn't capture an image), his story of the "player's insurrection" from the front page of The Plain Dealer on June 15, 1940 had a bigger headline than Hitler's invasion of Paris.)

    • [/list]

    Biography
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  • [*]Plain Dealing: A Biography of Gordon Cobbledick (free file share download, but requires credit card to make sure you aren't a bot)

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    Memorial
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  • [*]"Cobby ... Cobby ... Cobby ...," Hal Liebowitz, October 4, 1969.

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    Quotes:
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  • [*]On the Washington Redskins' Jim Crow policy:



    "They're spotting their rivals the tremendous advantage of exclusive rights to a whole race containing excellent football players."



  • [*]On the Indians coming away with the victory on the day of Babe Ruth's 500th homerun:



    "The score of this, their tenth victory of the season over the terrible men of Gotham, was 6 to 5."
    • [/list]

    Benjamin Grimm
    Jul 21 2020 09:29 AM
    Re: Gordon Cobbledick

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    Now THAT'S a face!



    I tell you, if I looked like that... um... people would be calling me "Gordon Cobbledick."



    (Maybe it's just as well.)

    Lefty Specialist
    Jul 21 2020 06:11 PM
    Re: Gordon Cobbledick

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    "I know what you did last summer."

    Edgy MD
    Jul 21 2020 07:53 PM
    Re: Gordon Cobbledick

    Imperturbable, but I think he looks like a real dude. He strikes me as the type of guy who was a real pain in the ass as a headmaster, but held the job for 50 years and alums never stop praising him after they graduate. They succeed wildly because of the #lifelessons he taught them, and they give generously back to the school, and regularly go back and visit, amazed to find that he still sets up his desk in the center hall rather than in any office, and everybody is afraid to tell him he's way past retirement age.



    The world has passed him by (I mean, how in the world has every member of the Cobbledick family not changed their names?) but he's such an institution at the school, that to a lot of alums, he is the school. The board knows that the he's no longer an asset, and a lot of changes need to be made, but (1) none have the courage to tell him that, and (2) they're terrified that the alums who support him will stop the gravy train if he gets shoved aside in a public brouhaha.



    He also looks like the founder of a small-but-elite regional grocery chain, where he's known to be found walking the aisles of his stores, making sure everything is clean and comfortable, greeting the shoppers and asking for their direct feedback about what they bought last week. In this version of his story, he's a CEO that's way past retirement, but none of the board has the guts to tell him.



    I'm not quite sure why, as a young marine, he already looks to be in his 50s.

    MFS62
    Jul 24 2020 07:17 AM
    Re: Gordon Cobbledick

    Should the Mets player who commits the most errors this season be awarded the Gordon Bobbledick award?

    Later