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.

And

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