Baseball Then and Now: Where Have You Gone?
Baseball then: Late in his career, Joe DiMaggio is asked why, with all his injuries and racked with pain, he continues to play every day. He replies: “Because there may be somebody here today who has never seen me play.”
Baseball now: Late in his career, Jack McDowell of the Yankees gives the finger to 21,000 fans in Yankee Stadium who have come to see him play.
THOMAS MILITELLO, San Pedro
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