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It happens every spring, DiMaggio, Mays, the splendid splinter, & a lifetime at the ballpark, Ira Berkow

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It happens every spring

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Ira Berkow

DiMaggio, Mays, the splendid splinter, & a lifetime at the ballpark

I. Headliners -- The President appears at a ballgame -- Dear Mickey: messages and prayers for an American hero -- Mickey Mantle: "a day to remember" -- Casey Stengel: ever the perfesser -- Billy Martin: something was cooking -- A humbled Michael Jordan learns new truths -- Where had Joe and Ted gone? -- Ted Williams: "the slugging professor" -- For Williams, a joy found in the debate -- Joe DiMaggio: "and all that cheering" -- Roberto Clemente's legacy -- Satchel Paige: "new generation is taking over" -- Nolan Ryan's "exalted victims" -- Tom Seaver: his remarkable art and science -- Willie will be there -- Roger Maris: bittersweet memories -- Rose gets a single to break Cobb's career mark for hits -- Charlie Hustle's second chance -- A vote for Wilheim -- Drysdale could laugh at himself -- Brooks Robinson: a touch of gold -- II. Jackie Robinson -- Dixie Walker remembers -- Who's he? -- Jackie and Pee Wee -- III. Special moments -- Cal Ripken Jr.: at the very end -- Game 7: a stack of goose eggs -- Frank Saucier: the man for whom Eddie Gaedel pinch hit -- Executing the potato play -- Vince's story (with assists from Mickey Lolich and Al Kaline) -- Yes, for real they were -- McGwire and Sosa: an unforgettable race for a revered record -- Solace for Mitch Williams -- IV. They did make a name for themselves -- The extraordinary life and times of Ping Bodie -- Stan Wasiak: a minor-league lifer -- Jack Lazorko: up and down, and once again -- The San Diego Chicken, feathers and all -- Hercules Payne: the spring training phenom -- Emil Verban: the antelope returns -- Ralph Branca looks back, back, back -- Bobby Thomson and the shot heard 'round the world stamp -- Pete Gray: one-armed brownie -- Jim Abbott: he did it with one hand -- Lou Brissie: left for dead, then a major-league all-star -- V. George Steinbrenner -- I'm like Archie Bunker -- Analyzed by Freud --VI. Executive branch -- Marge Schott: oh, the troubles she and her St. Bernard caused -- P.K. Wrigley: reclusive owner speaks -- Bill Veeck: "and the circus came to town" -- Bart Giamatti: "the green fields of the mind" -- Marvin Miller: master bargainer -- VII. Ballplayers' wives -- Johnny (Lois) Vander Meer: "he's gone fishin'" -- Nellie (Joanne) Fox: the phone rings -- Steve (Cindy) Howe: the story as lived by Cindy Howe -- VIII. The other side of glory -- The shooting of Eddie Waitkus -- Ferguson Jenkins: a terrible turn in the road -- Bruce Gardner: so close, yet so far away -- IX. Viewpoints -- Shoeless Joe: his confession -- the meaning of baseball by some who might know -- Cooperstown: village of facts and myths -- Tom Gorman's final call -- No false modesty for Henderson -- All-Star game: whose game is it, anyway? -- Batgate: George Brett's tarriest moment -- Hank Aaron: an unusual tribute -- "What would Koufax have said?" -- Wrigley Field: the boy, the man, and the ballpark -- Comiskey Park: on its last pillars -- The universe and the case of Pete Rose -- X. Baseball and writing -- Painting with words -- Red Smith: the Shakespeare of the press box -- Oscar Madison passes away -- Jerry Holtzman: "They served ice cream on Friday" -- Some baseball is the fate of us all -- XI. Personally speaking -- Hank Sauer and his glove that disappeared -- Jim Bouton and the author: two baseball careers in opposite directions -- Jim Woods: at 17, and in the Big Leagues -- Face to face with Denny McLain -- Final countdown: the fatalism of the baseball writer