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From the ''Sporting Eye'' Archives

From the Phoenix's George Kimball archives

By GEORGE KIMBALL | November 16, 2011

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We've rounded up some of our favorite vintage "The Sporting Eye" columns from late sports writer and former Phoenix staff writer George Kimball. Read on for more.

"1973 World Series: You Gotta Believe" | October 23, 1973

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ARTICLES BY GEORGE KIMBALL

FROM THE ''SPORTING EYE'' ARCHIVES | November 16, 2011
"1973 World Series: You Gotta Believe," "Super Bowl VIII: Bud Grant as Capt. Queeg," and more

THE PLOUGHSHARES YEARS | November 16, 2011
After reading an item on the Boston Globe book page noting that DeWitt Henry had published a memoir, I bought a copy of the book.

REVIEW: THE ROCKET THAT FELL TO EARTH | April 01, 2009
On July 18, 1992, in a celebrated post-game meltdown at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, the pitcher formerly known as the Rocket expressed his displeasure over a column I had written.

BACK BEAT | October 24, 2008
On a Sunday afternoon in December of 1997 I hooked up with the poet Jim McCrary at a Greenwich Village saloon.

BOOKMAN | July 08, 2008
Larry McMurtry, the best I can tell, remains the only man to have both won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and written an Academy Award–winning screenplay.