Word: rizzuto
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...Phil Rizzuto was not elected to the Hall of Fame until 37 years after his retirement from baseball...
...What Rizzuto did offer was a certain scrappiness that made him the envy of every manager in the league. The master of the sacrifice bunt, Rizzuto knew how to "manufacture...
...PHIL RIZZUTO...
...decades the powerful New York baseball press has engaged in what James calls "a Rizzuto Exaltathon." By now the "Holy Cow!" boy is better known for the sprung poetry of his patter on Yankees TV broadcasts -- and for his call of "backseat petting" on Meat Loaf's hit song Paradise by the Dashboard Light -- than for his great-field, great-bunt playing days. But even then, James persuasively argues, he didn't have the numbers or the earned renown of Pee Wee Reese, a Hall of Famer, or of George Davis and Vern Stephens, who are faint memories...
...held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly fantasy -- the sport excluded blacks and kept even its top stars in indentured servitude -- but to a fan, soft-focus reverie can be as real and pungent as Phil Rizzuto's laugh...