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Great and Gretzky belong together
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By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com Tuesday, August 29, 2000 "If you look at a grandmaster in chess, he can look at a chessboard and he doesn't see 20 individual pieces. He sees a sequence. That's the same thing going on about Gretzky. He's seeing all other players in a kind of general pattern that he recognizes, that he processes instantly," says Malcolm Gladwell of The New Yorker on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. He was just a kid when he gave his first interview. "The headline says, 'Hull, Richard, Howe and Gretzky,'" he recalled. "That was lo ... Activate your ESPN Profile!
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