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...system that would not dry up. This meant that there were always new young men ready to play and play better than the new young men on other teams. It also meant that the Yankees could do cold-hearted things like let go of their veteran All-Star shortstop Phil Rizzuto as a surprise gesture on Old Timer's Day 1956 sure in the knowledge that Jerry Coleman, Gil McDougald or Billy Martin (each a star on his own) would fill the hole...
Nineteen years, almost to the day, that he was unceremoniously dismissed in the midst of a ceremony, Phil Rizzuto stood on the field during Yankee Old Timer's Day and watched his old teammate Billy Martin take cheers as the team's new manager. Rizzuto was gray by 1975 and wore inexplicably large tinted aviator glasses which made him look like a 1,000,000X blown up slide of a house fly. If I were pretending to be omniscient I would tell you how Rizzuto felt watching Martin walk on the field to a huge ovation. ("Phil felt a lump...
...Bruins had spent the week encouraging their fans to come out to the Garden for a look at ex-Hub heroes Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge and Carol Vadnais, but it was two unheralded young Rangers who were worth watching...
Fleecing Friars. Roselli got along famously with the Jessel-Sinatra crowd, but again temptation got in his way. In 1968 he and four others were convicted of swindling members of the Friars - including Comedians Phil Silvers and Zeppo Marx and Singer Tony Martin -out of some $400,000 by cheating at cards. The elaborate fleecing system involved observers in the attic who peered through peepholes to read the cards of the players. They then flashed coded electronic signals to a member of the ring seated at the table, who picked up the messages on equipment he wore on a girdle...
George Sikowski (Cole Stevens), mayor of the town, faces an uphill re-election fight, and Phil Romano (Charles Laquidera, a WBCN dj) who inherited his father's strip-mining business isn't sure that he shouldn't back George's Jewish challenger, Sharman. James Daley, (Jon Terry) unloved and unsuccessful, is embittered with his job as a junior high school principal, and regards himself as a man of "unfulfilled potential." James feels he has been held back by his obligations to his recently-deceased father and Tom (William Leach) his alcoholic brother. And through it all is the coach (Alan...