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Gib Shanley tributes fill local shows Published on Tuesday, Apr 08, 2008
It has been said that a measure of a person can be determined by the number of people who show up at his funeral.
In the world of journalism, especially in the niche of sports, where breaking news is rare, the measure of a person after he dies is gathered by what his contemporaries say about him.
After sifting through the coverage Sunday given to the death of Gib Shanley, a man I never had the chance to meet, it's easy to see that his colleagues and those sports reporters who came after him respected him greatly.
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