Comments on: DiMaggio was an arrogant jerk; Whitey Ford doctored the ball, says wife-swapper

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By: hop

hop — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:20:31 +0000

Yet another stupid azz article by craig, who is this loser anyway that writes this garbage here? I hope someone aint paying him for this crap.

By: harrykiwi

harrykiwi — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:01:35 +0000

Yeah I guess I would be a little bitter too if Joe D didn’t wife swap Marilyn Monroe with me.

By: JimC

JimC — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:00:30 +0000

smsetnor
Jeter dsidn’t even know DiMaggio.

By: JimC

JimC — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:57:52 +0000

SteveMac
I was a Yankee fan growing up and DiMag could do no wrong in my eyes but I’ve read several books that say the same thing. He grew up during the depression and it made him one of the stingiest guys I’ve ever heard of- every golf tournament he agreed to play in
had to send him new clubs and a dozen shirts. When he died he had a basement full of unused gold clubs and hundreds- maybe thousands of unopened shirts. He didn’t want to sign autographs unless he got paid. He wasn’t much of a father to his son either. He married Marilyn but couldn’t keep her- he was egotistical and she was nuts (borderline personality disorder).

By: smsetnor

smsetnor — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:00:15 +0000

I remember when Jeter used to tell DiMaggio to lighten up and be more humble.

By: Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:56:04 +0000

Joe Dimaggio was NOT an arrogant jerk.

By: Omega

Omega — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:07:15 +0000

that being said, I am not CONFIDENT in my ability to spell at times…

By: Omega

Omega — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:41:41 +0000

DiMaggio was not an arrogant jerk, he was the best at what he did and he knew it. He was supremely confidant in his own ability. He was proud of who he was and what he had achieved in his professional career.
Maybe he just treated wife swapping loud mouths poorly and this guy has no other frame of reference with Joe…

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:29:25 +0000

Craig,
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are among the most reviled athletes of this era of baseball. Trying to equate their behavior and attitudes with Ford and Dimaggio is both inapplicable and insulting.
The Ford accusation can never be proven while with Bonds and Clemens there is a laundry list of evidence. Meanwhile, even if Dimaggio was a closet jerk, that doesn’t even come close to Bonds’ outspoken disdain for just about everyone.
Meanwhile, this all comes from a wife-swapping former Yankee who played 15 years after Dimaggio retired.

By: Tony A

Tony A — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:26:48 +0000

Much of the info that has come out in the past decade would lead a reasonable person to believe that Joe D was perhaps the biggest jerk in Jankees history, including ownership…Whitey was well known for doctoring the ball long before the tell-all books started coming out…BUT, between the 2 of them, they help bring a lot of success the Jankees way during their tenure, and that’s why they belong in the HOF…

By: GS

GS — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:42:25 +0000

Hall of Famer Whitey Ford now on the field pleading with the crowd for… for some kind of sanity.
Uh-oh, and a barrage of pretzels now knocking Whitey unconscious.
Wow. This is uh… This is a black day for baseball.

By: Church of the Perpetually Outraged

Church of the Perpetually Outraged — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:39:05 +0000

I find that shocking because everything I’ve read in the past five years has led me to believe that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were the only jerks and cheaters in the history of baseball. Huh. Learn something new every day, I guess.
Haha, +1 Craig

By: Don in Dallas

Don in Dallas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:27:44 +0000

Whitey was my hero growing up.Remember stories of Elston Howard having a sharp edge on his shin guard to scuff the ball for Whitey? Also, Dimaggio is well known as having been a jerk – just read his recent bios. Fritz Peterson is just a tired source for info during this Yankee era – Sparky Lyle and Jim Bouton covered this territory decades ago.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:18:13 +0000

@Steve Mac, I’m pretty sure everyone knows Whitey Ford doctored the ball. In fact, he admitted it in his autobiography, Slick (http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/21/sports/scouting-ford-defends-doctoring.html).

By: Steve Mac

Steve Mac — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:36:36 +0000

Lets see … a guy who played from 1966 to 1976 is qualified to talk about a Yankee who retired in 1951 and he didn’t know and a Yankee who ended his career a year after Fritz arrived? Please, all Fritz is trying to do with that stuff is sensationalize his book to increase sales. Dimaggio is dead and can’t defend himself and Whitey was never accused by anyone of doctoring. It’s sad and pathetic the lengths former athletes will go to make a buck.