Word: joe
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...Joe Torre has a face like...well, like the gift his sister gave him when she went into the convent in 1951. "She gave me a baseball glove, a Rawlings," the New York Yankees manager recalled a few days before he was to lead his team into its 34th World Series but his first. "She told me to say an Our Father every time I put the glove on, figuring if she gave me rosary beads, I'd never...
...face is leathery, to be sure, but there's more to the resemblance between mitt and mug than that. Like a good glove, it is well broken in, comforting, familiar. It's also a chronicle of games and seasons past, with wrinkles and creases to represent plays worth remembering. Joe Torre has a face a baseball fan can love...
...year his sister took her vows was the year Joe, an 11-year-old New York Giants fan growing up in hostile Brooklyn, rushed out onto Avenue T to celebrate Bobby Thomson's home run off the Dodgers' Ralph Branca. That was also the year his brother Frank signed with the Boston Braves. Six years later, Frank was in the World Series with the Braves. Because their mother and father had separated, Frank, nine years older than Joe, became a surrogate father, paying Joe's way through St. Francis Prep and giving him his 1958 World Series ring. The ring...
Lamm said that Americans face a "red scare" of a different sort than that imagined by former senator Joe McCarthy. Alluding to the size of the federal bureaucracy, Lamm said that Americans are drowning in a "tidal wave...
...Farm to living the beautiful life in New York City to "learning" at Miss Porter's School, where the schoolgirls are played by men in drag. The most hysterical stop along the way is the scene set at the Kennedy home on "the merry old land of Cod," where Joe Kennedy sizes up Jackie as a potential presidential wife. The Kennedy clan is painted in broad strokes as an obnoxious group of loudmouthed, thick-waisted jocks speaking with an accent that sounds more Brooklyn than Boston. Ethel, burdened by several babies dangling from various parts of her body, is crudely...