Loss of 2 Local Legends Makes for Bittersweet Saturday Morning
New Haven Register › December 06, 2007
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On a Saturday morning in New Haven, there was sad news on the doorsteps as I drove downtown in the darkness to watch them blow up the New Haven Coliseum. Tom McCormack, the legendary New Haven Register sportswriter, had died on the previous day at age 77.
Ironic: The man who had spent so many nights covering sports events in the Coliseum passed away the day before the building itself was imploded.See the full content of this document
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Loss of 2 Local Legends Makes for Bittersweet Saturday Morning
During my drive to the demolition site, I was thinking about that crusty, lovable old character, the kind you rarely encounter in newsrooms these days.
I didn't know him ...See the full content of this document
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