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"The history of the New York Yankees is virtually the history of baseball," New York Times columnist Dave Anderson writes in introducing this shameless horn-blower of a book. After those 11 years, you feel like blowing your horn; bask in the hubris, regreet old friends. Watch Babe Ruth's...
First the good news for American League pitchers: Jim Rice does not try to hit home runs. Now for the bad news: he hits home runs anyway, often enough so far to titillate the statistics keepers. The Boston Red Sox's splendid young designated hitter and leftfielder has hit 18...
The most celebrated former witness to date is Gerald Martin Zelmanowitz, a Brooklyn-born former stock swindler whose testimony resulted in the 1970 conviction of notorious Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. With his family, Zelmanowitz was relocated in San Francisco, where he became Paul Maris and eventually entered the ladies...
Investigating Maris' background, a private detective easily penetrated the cover supplied by Justice Department officials. Among other curiosities, the members of the Maris family had all been issued Social Security cards with consecutive numbers. Officials at Maris' supposed alma maters, John Bartram High School (Justice officials spelled it...
But the question of ultimate responsibility for the conduct of protected witnesses has yet to be resolved. In the meantime, former hoodlums keep re-entering polite society every day. Zelmanowitz-Maris, for instance, has been relocated with yet another set of identity papers. The Government will not, of course, say...