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...Newly acquired Rockies Mike Hampton and Denny Neagle will not petition manager Buddy Bell to pitch only in home games 2. Nobody will come close to breaking Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Not this year; not for 100 years 3. Champagne delivery truck drivers will not have any problem getting past the Yankee Stadium guard they've become friends with over the past three years...
...Toward the end of the 19th century, the boxer John L. Sullivan earned four times as much as the President, and Sully's contemporary Mike ("King") Kelly, baseball's first transcendent star, was able to underwrite a flashy lifestyle with what bleacher bums saw as an oversize paycheck. Joe DiMaggio was criticized for his regular spring-training holdouts, and in 1970, when Curt Flood challenged baseball's reserve clause, which bound a player to his team--in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court--most fans viewed him not so much as a great emancipator...
...dislike, the ability to hear symphonic music and watch dramas without leaving home and the opportunity to ride vehicles that can transport us anywhere in the world in a matter of hours, that their immediate response would be to cry out, "You live in paradise!"? THOMAS A. DIMAGGIO York...
...want Bush to stay out of it as much as possible," says a senior adviser. "We want Gore to look like he's desperate, like he'll do anything to win." By contrast, the strategists depicted their man as the very picture of rugged ease, reading the new Joe DiMaggio biography, jogging daily, clearing cedar from a path where he and Laura like to ramble--much the way Ronald Reagan found peace chopping wood...
...That's rather like if Joe DiMaggio was made to wait until the '90s to get into Cooperstown...