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Baseball could soon lose a giant

By Buster Olney

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Bobby Cox first mentioned walking away from baseball in the spring of 2008, and when word of this reached Gene Michael, a former teammate and longtime friend of Cox, Michael burst out laughing. "He's not going anywhere," Michael said. "He's a lifer. What else is he going to do?" Cox signed with the Dodgers in 1959, reached the majors in 1968 and played for a couple of seasons, and incredibly, this is the 29th year that Cox has managed a major league team. There will be a day when he will be ind ...

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