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...says DiMaggio, who once had to fight a souvenir collector at his bank to retrieve a check made out by Joe and endorsed by his then wife Marilyn Monroe. "Gorbachev signed it the way a doctor writes a prescription. In my whole life, that's the only time I ever asked anybody to sign a ball...
Pope John Paul II signed one once after an outdoor Mass in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Like Whitey Ford, who writes "Ed Ford" to conserve energy, the Pope went with "JP II." If he knows baseball, he might wonder what ever happened to that era of priceless memories when small boys leaned out over dugout railings and haunted stadium gates. A number of contemporary players, like the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser and Don Mattingly of the Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances...
...sign anything flimsy," says golfer Lee Trevino, who recalls autographing a $5 bill once for a persistent woman in a restaurant. " 'I'll treasure it forever,' she told me. Of course, I got it back from the cashier in my change." The only autograph basketball's Tom Van Arsdale ever solicited was from an Indiana high school kid, Oscar Robertson, when Van Arsdale was even younger. "He was eating a hot dog. I'll never forget the way he shoved it in his pocket to free his hands. Mustard and all." They became teammates in the pros...
...activists pooh-pooh such fears. "Collectively and individually, talk- show hosts have the fattest egos you'd ever want to bump heads against," says Mark Williams. "So the likelihood of them agreeing on a national agenda is minimal." If they do, however, it might be time for listeners to follow an oft-repeated bit of talk-show advice: Turn your radio down...
...Ever since January, when an FBI probe of shady trading practices rocked Chicago's commodities pits, members of New York City's markets have wondered when the spotlight would be turned on them. Last week the waiting was over. On Thursday morning U.S. postal inspectors and officials of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates the pits, raided four of New York's five commodities exchanges. The Feds combed through records and served subpoenas on at least a dozen individuals in a search for evidence of suspected criminal and civil violations by an estimated 50 traders...