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Article: Not All Comebacks Are Magical
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 3, 1996
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The comeback has been a staple of history ever since that
phoenix bird of legend rose from its own ashes to rejoin its kind.
The sports pages have been saturated with stories of the comeback,
in this sport or that, by individuals trying to relive it up.
Magic Johnson is merely the latest to disavow retirement and
return to the wars, his being basketball. He has, as an immediate
example, a return to the game by Michael Jordan, a mere two-year
retiree who has meshed so well with the Chicago Bulls that they are
the class of the league.
Magic was no less a dominant player and crowd hero, but four
years away from the game? It speaks of basketball as distinguished
from baseball, which ...