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The Mick looking at Cliff Mapes, wearing his future number.

 

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2007 ALCS.

 

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Mr Coffee was quite bitter......

 

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Mr Coffee was quite bitter......

LOL. He was an asshole. From Cramer's biography:

Money was what DiMaggio cared about most of all. He knew both his value and his price, and he always suspected strangers of trying to rip him off. His signature on a baseball was worth hundreds and he exploited it to his dying day. He sold some of his trophies, then pretended they had been stolen, so the Yankees would give him a fresh set.

He made thousands every year from reselling hundreds of free tickets that he requested from events he had no intention of attending. When a Japanese backer gave him a Cadillac - he always had free cars - his response was "Did you fill it up with gas?" When the tank ran dry, he gave the Cadillac to his granddaughter.

DiMaggio lived in a world of freebies and tax evasion. When the Oakland A's, the only other major league team he ever worked for, invited him to attend special games, his price was a first-class return from Miami, his official home, even though he would often be in San Francisco, a $20 cab ride away from Oakland . Not that he paid for cabs.

When he accepted an invitation to a celebrity golf tournament, he would say he had no clubs and no kit. In his garage, as a result, there were dozens of sets of freshly minted golf clubs, shirts, shoes and balls, most unused, many of them still in their wrapping.

When the 1989 earthquake hit San Francisco - Di Maggio's home town where his Sicilian born father was a fisherman - Jolting Joe got special permission to go to his sister's house. He re-emerged with a binliner containing $600,000 that he had stashed away.

 

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