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...average. Yet all the while he was enduring torrents of abuse from his Grand Inquisitor, the Yankee owner. Winfield's role as the Yankee martyr struggling in the face of unbearable persecution reached epic proportions. He became Odysseus to Steinbrenner's Poseidon. Or perhaps you might call him Job DiMaggio...
...Martin Luther King is a role model, Joe DiMaggio is a role model, Frank Viola is a role model and Christopher Columbus is a role model in the eyes and in the minds of young Italian Americans," Vellucci says. "Nobody should try to change that...
...throws in an incomprehensible reference to Graham Greene, and reveals unexciting insights such as "There is a basic primal element in the confrontation of the pitcher and the hitter that connects us with our earliest past" and "Almost everyone agrees that the hardest record to break will be Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak...
...course. Joe DiMaggio didn't have Pete Rose's problem. He could retire and move on to other things. But Rose didn't seem to have a differentiated ego. In other words, he didn't derive self-esteem from multiple sources. He was a ball-park rat. There may not have been anything else for him to do. People like Rose and Levine and Milken seem like fundamentally limited men. In the business world, look at Peter Lynch, who walked away from running Fidelity's Magellan fund with the express purpose of spending more time with his family and charities...
...midfield position, Columbia will miss the play of Martin Munnelly '90, who led the Lions in scoring last season. But senior Peter DiMaggio has already filled in admirably, recording four assists this season...