Mourning Joe - by Dan Liebman

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bianca — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:47:59 GMT

Great article you wrote, i read all of your articles, there addicting! Joe will always be with us. He had so much passion in horse racing, and thats what made him the person i enjoyed listening to.

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Bruce Greene — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:00:05 GMT

Wonderful memories of Joe, Dan. Some turf writers are as competitive as the athletes they write about. Fortunately many more are not. To feel included and motivated by one of your idols certainly has contributed to making you the writer you are today. Horse racing is so much more than this group or that profession. Breeders, owners, trainers, riders, writers, and fans all make the sport. A place for the wordsmiths in the Hall is long overdue.

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Paseana — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:22:44 GMT

Dan, It's puzzled me for a long time why our National Racing Hall Of Fame insists on limiting membership to horses, trainers, and jockeys ONLY! Just with breeders alone, it's ridiculous that names like Hancock, Wright, Gaines, Whitney, Combs, Riddle, and Phipps (and so many more) aren't enshrined in our hallowed Hall!

And you're absolutely right! Joe Hirsch BELONGS in the Hall Of Fame, as do Charlie Hatton, Red Smith, and Jim Murray (and so many more). And what about racecallers.....Henson, Anderson, Hernandez (and so many more).

It might be one of the greatest legacies that Joe Hirsch could leave us if he were to be the one to open up the Hall Of Fame to so many who's indelible marks on our sport and it's history are like fingerprints through time.

I don't know if I dare hope!

re: Mourning Joe - by Dan Liebman

KM — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:15:38 GMT

nice article ...joe will be missed.

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Bill — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:42:46 GMT

You're on the money, Dan. Joe was one of a kind and I used to really look forward to opening up the Form to read his latest column. He will be sorely missed and he ought to be in the HOF at Saratoga. He was champion.

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Bellwether — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:46:48 GMT

keeping Joe's passion for THE GAME alive is important to all that really LOVE this LIFE & those that would like to know more about it!!!...ty for that... Long Live JOE & The Majestic Animals!!!...

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Turk — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:31:44 GMT

That was a nice piece Dan. I read you often but I learned something new about you from this. As important as Joe was to racing, he really was someone to emulate as a person.

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Stan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:44:42 GMT

Maybe Joe should go in with Charlie Hatton. The bar would be set high for those to follow.

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BombsAwayBob Grant — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:40:10 GMT

Hopefully the Big-Wigs that make the decisions @ The Racing Hall-Of-Fame can start a new wing with people that have left an idelible mark on the sport(Writers, reporters, Gamblers, artists,etc.) The HOF can open the wing with Joe Hirsch; then add 'PEZ' for his Decades of Classic DRF Covers; & Harvey Pack, for his lighthearted stories of the characters he's met in the last 50 years of racing!

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joe — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:57:46 GMT

It's a shame the hall of fame honor would-or will-come after Joe's passing. And I also saw the irony of his death, as racing disappears from the pages of America's newspapers. May his love and enthusiasm for the sport take root in the technology of the future. I'm proud to own Joe's biography of Horatio Luro-two guys of class in the sport of kings.