The Toronto Sun
April 10, 2009
April 10, 2009
Dear Editor
Joe DiMaggio, of the 56-game hitting streak in 1941, was the last American knight.
During the former New York Yankees star's hitting streak, his only fuel was determination, half a cup of coffee, and a cigarette. He was always taciturn and dignified, never saying a bad word about a teammate.
During his later years, despite being offered millions of dollars, he refused to gossip about his beloved Marilyn Monroe.
Today's Major League Baseball players trash-talk teammates, and boast publicly about their sexual exploits, like teenage boys.
Managers Cito Gaston of the Toronto Blue Jays and Joe Torre of the Los Angeles Dodgers have dredged up old quarrels and shared their grievances with the world.
Jose Canseco and Alex Rodriguez have boasted of their time spent with Madonna, the Material Girl, and have had a public spat over A-Rod's supposed advances on Jose's wife (while they were married).
This scurrilous soap opera-style sports has gone on long enough.
Let's have an attitude change, to the days of Joltin' Joe, of professionalism, of going out every day and getting the job done, of letting your bat do the talking.
DANIEL MARTIN
Joe DiMaggio, of the 56-game hitting streak in 1941, was the last American knight.
During the former New York Yankees star's hitting streak, his only fuel was determination, half a cup of coffee, and a cigarette. He was always taciturn and dignified, never saying a bad word about a teammate.
During his later years, despite being offered millions of dollars, he refused to gossip about his beloved Marilyn Monroe.
Today's Major League Baseball players trash-talk teammates, and boast publicly about their sexual exploits, like teenage boys.
Managers Cito Gaston of the Toronto Blue Jays and Joe Torre of the Los Angeles Dodgers have dredged up old quarrels and shared their grievances with the world.
Jose Canseco and Alex Rodriguez have boasted of their time spent with Madonna, the Material Girl, and have had a public spat over A-Rod's supposed advances on Jose's wife (while they were married).
This scurrilous soap opera-style sports has gone on long enough.
Let's have an attitude change, to the days of Joltin' Joe, of professionalism, of going out every day and getting the job done, of letting your bat do the talking.
DANIEL MARTIN
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3 comments:
I'm just waiting to reveal my exploits with " the material girl !!"
So, off with your head.
Trash is in. I'm trash. I'm in.
Yeah, no drama in Joe DiMaggio's life at all...and such a nice guy to his fans, too.
"Let's have an attitude change, to the days of Joltin' Joe, of professionalism," of all the Yankees being white. Also, that black President? Throw a teabag at him.
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