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Rich Cohen

Connecticut, United States
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Columnist @WSJ (“Back When”), author most recently of The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator
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The Babe Ruth Truthers

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By Rich Cohen
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This past July, on Kristin Cavallari’s Let’s Be Honest podcast, the Chicago Cubs’ star center fielder, Pete Crow-Armstrong, was asked to share an “unpopular opinion.” His answer: “Babe Ruth never existed.” The man known as “PCA” credited the theory to Tayler Saucedo, then a Seattle Mariners relief pitcher, who reached this conclusion by way of deduction. Saucedo said he’d seen hardly any video of the Babe. If Ruth existed, where’s all the footage?
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Last Call for the Dive Bar?

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By Rich Cohen
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Montero, the beloved Brooklyn Heights dive bar that dates to the 1930s, has found new owners who have pledged to preserve it. (Photo by Sebastian Lange.) I don’t want to live in a world without dive bars. It was in those sleazy, beer-soaked bat caves that I learned to be a man. I am thinking of a half dozen joints where, from 1990 to 2010, when my fourth child was born, I was welcomed as Norm was welcomed at Cheers.
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Lies My Father Told Me

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By Rich Cohen
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In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod Up here, on the surface, Tom Junod’s book In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man is about his father, Big Lou Junod, a stylish, larger-than-life, Paul Bunyan figure who, in his son’s eyes, could whip any man and love every woman. It’s about the truth behind the façade, the old man’s philandering and vow-breaking, and what a boy raised by a false god can do with such a legacy.
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