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http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/atlanta-braves/2013/feb/08/spring-trainings-fuel-memory-bank/Sunday, February 10, 2013
Spring trainings fill the memory bank | Atlanta Braves | www.ajc.com - David O'Brien - Or, just sitting in a dugout while there’s still dew on the grass and the groundskeepers watering the infield. Bobby Cox comes shuffling into the dugout, smiling as his steel spikes click-clack across concrete and he greets everyone with a warm smile before sitting between a couple of writers. Bobby answering questions about this kid Heyward and how a ball off his bat sounds like it did off the bat of Hank and the Mick and not many others. And how that reminds him of the time the Mick, Mickey Mantle, Cox’s former Yankees teammate, did this or did that, and the time when Greg Maddux predicted exactly where the next pitch was going to be hit in foul territory … damn, as I write this I realize again what a privilege it was to be part of all those storytelling sessions and get daily lessons from the human baseball encyclopedia that was Cox.
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