“There’s no crying in baseball!”
That’s a memorable line from actor Tom Hanks in the movie A League of Their Own when he was playing Jimmy Dugan, the fictional manager of a team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, after one of his players broke down in tears while he was berating her for a mistake.
There is crying in baseball, however, as we saw after the Toronto Blue Jays suffered a heart-breaking 5-4, 11-inning loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of this year’s World Series.
I was thinking of Hanks’s movie line when I saw the video of goalie Jakub Dobes in tears during an interview after the Canadiens’ 4-3 overtime loss to the Devils on Thursday night in New Jersey. There is crying in hockey, but normally it’s after a team is eliminated in the playoffs or esp

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