I now have 2000 reason to start a Bobby Cox Master Set including manager cards

CrimsonTider

Now that B-cox got his 2000th win as the Brave's skipper (2355 overall and 4th all-time) it is time to give him a set registery.

lawnmowerman

I don't know about a registry but 2000 wins is quite impressive.

mtcards

Isnt he also only a few ejections away from his 100th time to be thrown out of a game?

markj111

<< <i>Isnt he also only a few ejections away from his 100th time to be thrown out of a game? >>




He seems to have mellowed a bit. There have been times that he did not put up much of a fight despite a horrendous call. A younger Bobby would have been gone.

digicat

<< <i>Isnt he also only a few ejections away from his 100th time to be thrown out of a game? >>



He's well past that. He has the MLB record with 143 ejections.

storm888

just sayin'.............


The Bobby Cox: Record Holder, Most Ejections from a Baseball Game, Wife Beater

August 20, 2007

By Howard Cole / Baseball Savvy.com

So Bobby Cox has finally passed the legendary John McGraw, and stands alone as the most tossed manager in the baseball history. He's at 133 and counting.

That's 133 times he's lost his temper to the point where his presence is no longer welcomed at the workplace. That's 133 incidences on the job, where the arbiters of truth, the baseball umpires, have found Cox's behavior to be completely unacceptable.

We know of at least one instance where Cox's behavior in the home was deemed exponentially more unacceptable. Only that time, the arbiters wore badges and carried guns, and the heave-ho was accentuated with handcuffs.

Am I the only person on the planet who sees the correlation? Sure seems that way. Sure seems like the sports media, en masse, has celebrated Cox's achievement, with the most common reaction being a jolly laugh.

Well no, my friends. I'm sorry, but this is not funny stuff here. Cox does not get a free pass for the rest of his life. He's a wife beater. It's part of his bio.

I'm not saying that Cox's criminal history needs to be addressed each and every time his name comes up in the news. Of course not. But it certainly should be mentioned sometime, once in a blue moon, and someplace other than just here.

Do a Google search. Spend hours upon hours looking and you'll be hard pressed to find a single syllable on the subject that doesn't link to this site. It's absolutely mind boggling.

Cox was arrested for battery in 1995, around the time of the O.J. Simpson trial, when women were finally starting to talk openly and in public about domestic abuse. A critical mass, if you will, was underway, and it was making a difference.

Then here comes Bobby Cox, who, perhaps along with the Atlanta Braves, managed to turn the whole thing around, essentially getting Mrs. Cox to take responsibility for the fight and subsequent 911 call.

Cox was a public figure, after all, so the best thing to do, critical mass be damned, was to sweep it under the rug, as had been done countless times by important and unimportant husbands, down through the annals of time. Warren Moon's strategy, you may recall, was nearly identical, and also in the mid-1990s, with his domestic abuse case, which actually went to trial.

Cox's finagling his way out of a criminal mess made his original abuse that much worse for his wife. It's as if she was abused a second time, which is not uncommon for victims generally.

Being called out by an Internet baseball scribe, and perhaps a tiny group of others, once a year or so is an extremely small price to pay. Cox can continue with his temper tantrums on the diamond, and some may get a chuckle when he's directed to leave the premises. I won't be one of them.

He was a poor excuse for a man then. A poor excuse for a man with a record, I might add. The difference now is simply that he has a second record…

CrimsonTider

He was a poor excuse for a man then. A poor excuse for a man with a record, I might add


I bet that writer wouldn't say that to his face.

DavidPuddy

I just had his managerial Rookie Card graded. Popped yesterday.
POOR 1 1976 VENEZUELAN STICKERS 37 ROBERT COX

I'll sell it to you for 1 Million Dollars.

NickM

Crimson - currently PSA will not do Manager Sets. I know - I requested a Tom Lasorda set and was turned down. However, if enough of us request these sets - and having people who are going to the National buttonhole Joe about it there, they should change their minds.

Nick

gemint

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<< <i>Isnt he also only a few ejections away from his 100th time to be thrown out of a game? >>



He's well past that. He has the MLB record with 143 ejections. >>



Make that 144. He was tossed again today.

Spam alert - I will have a PSA 8 of his 1969T rookie card up for auction as soon as it comes back from PSA.

digicat

<< <i>currently PSA will not do Manager Sets. >>



Why wait for PSA to approve your registry set, just build your set.

There are cool ways to show off your set w/o using the PSA set registry.

Goot

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<< <i>currently PSA will not do Manager Sets. >>



Why wait for PSA to approve your registry set, just build your set.

There are cool ways to show off your set w/o using the PSA set registry. >>



Sweet set. There are some really awful ROY though...

jradke4

you also have many reasons to diss your tide too!!!! a lot of wins they have to give back huh. good thing they didnt go to the BCS title game. that would be a major embarassment to have to give back.

digicat

<< <i>Sweet set. There are some really awful ROY though... >>



Heh, that's the nature of the ROY award. The best rookie in the league was sometimes a very unremarkable player. And sometimes that unremarkable player went on to have a very short and forgetable career.

mtcards

Ejection #144 today

GDM67

I have my problems with Cox's tenure as Braves manager , but that article is a really cheap shot.

Even though I really can't stand him, I wouldn't say that LaRussa is a worthless skipper (or man) because of his DUI incident.

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