The ep44 Irwin S Cobb - A Man Of Heart

This is Jimmy Powers ready to bring you another story from the Tumal and the Shouting. Hello folks and fans, this is Jimmy Powers Transcribed with another chapter from the Grantland Rice story, The Tumal and the Shouting.

Reading this wonderful book, you come to know Granny Rice as few of us were privileged to know him, even those of us who batted the typewriter keys in the press boxes of the nation with Granny through so many wonderful years.

You see, Granny had countless friends and friends that weren't headliners in sports alone, but men in all walks of life. Urban S. Cobb, for instance. The great humorist was born four years before Granny in 1876.

No man lived a more fuller life of letters and all that went with pen and ink, including radio, the stage and movies. So let's look at Cobb, the sports enthusiast, through the eyes of his friend, Granny Rice.

And with a sharp salute to the every young spirit of Granny Rice, the Dean of Sports Writers, I take up his narrative in First Person. An old-time sportsman, one of the greatest writers, speakers, wits, and certainly one of the Earth's greatest fellows, landed in New York for the last time during the Christmas

season of 1943. The name was Irvin S. Cobb of Paducah, Kentucky, New York, and California, and you can include almost any state where Irv has spent either a night or a day or even thirty minutes.

We went back to the older and earlier days of such remembered entries as Bose Bojer, Bunk Macbeth, Damon Runyon, Gene Fowler, Ring Lardner, Haywood Bruin, and a few others who once decorated the sporting scene.