A Lede of Their Own
Fictional baseball manager Jimmy Dugan is all over today's sports pages.
When a New York Met (shortstop Wilmer Flores) gets traded, cries on-camera at Citi Field and then learns post-game that he was not traded after all, it’s most definitely cause at the reporting end for a resurrection of the bit of movie dialogue voted #54 on the American Film Institute’s “100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time.”
From the top of Post sportswriter Kevin Kernan’s report:
There is crying in baseball.
From NBC Sports’ Hardball Talk:
No matter what hacks who quote A League of Their Own say, there’s no shame in crying in baseball.
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