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...Depression and two World Wars; player-owner conflicts that go back more than a century (the reserve clause that prevented players from switching teams was hated even in the 1880s); and the long struggle to achieve racial integration. Baseball celebrates great hitters like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, great characters like Casey Stengel and Rube Waddell (who had to be restrained from chasing fire engines during games), great disasters like the Merkle Boner and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. It gives us Red Barber's famous radio calls, Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine and more versions...
...Marlins), along with such FORTUNE 500 businesses as the Tribune Co. (Chicago Cubs) and Anheuser-Busch (St. Louis Cardinals) -- possess the most coveted playthings in America: major league sports franchises. The players, backed by the most successful union in history, have grown rich beyond the wildest dreams of Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays. More than 100 players make over $3 million a season; the average salary is just over $1 million. During the past decade, baseball has grown from a sleepy $600 million business to an industry worth almost $2 billion. The strike, at its core, is over the simplest...
Once lodged, he could be difficult to remove. Joe DiMaggio offered a night's stay at his Manhattan hotel suite, and Berg remained for six weeks. He traveled light: a toothbrush, a razor and a book, sometimes in Sanskrit. His road uniform was a dark wash-and-wear suit and a white nylon shirt that he would rinse out and hang up to dry before bedtime. In the morning, one host recalled, Moe would show up for breakfast fully dressed though a bit damp...
Best record in baseball and they just keep getting better. I think Paul O'Neill's going to hit .450. You have to figure it will be a Yankee to beat Ted Williams' record (overrated, couldn't hit or field half as well as Dimaggio) anyway...
...admit that the WWF has hit a lull these days, but at its peak nothing compared. Remember the good old days. Forget about baseball's golden years with Dimaggio and Williams, the WWF with the Hulk, Captain Lou and Black Jack Mulligan was supreme...