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Izenberg: Lynch a true Giant of commitment
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Jerry Izenberg/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday September 24, 2008, 7:49 PM
The thing about Dick Lynch, the old Giants defensive back and radio voice who died Wednesday at age 72, was that he never wanted to be anyone else. He was old school the way it ought to be. He knew who he was and what he was, and it was exactly who and what he wanted to be.
He was a man of commitment ... his family ... the New York Football Giants ... Notre Dame. That was the order, and the trinity of his devotion was rock solid.
Commitment.
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A monumental move, with history in the mirror
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Jerry Izenberg/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday September 24, 2008, 6:02 PM
This column appeared in the Sept. 12, 2008, edition of The Star-Ledger
The Calliope in the Stadium Plaza will tootle a non-stop version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," while the vendors outside the stadium fire up the giant pretzels and break out the mustard. The souvenir joints and the saloons along River Avenue will throw open the doors and remind the constituency what a baseball neighborhood should be.
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