I remember a time when Shaquille O’Neal was the most-feared player in the NBA, a 325-pound locomotive, good for about 30 points, 20 rebounds and a wrecked backboard on a standard night. The only way to stop him was to foul him and hope his shooting from the line was off as usual. I grew up in Sacramento as a [...]
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My interview with Dom DiMaggio
Posted: 9th May 2009 by Graham Womack in MLBTags: DiMaggio, Dom DiMaggio, interview
A few days ago, I alluded on here to an interview I did with Dom DiMaggio, calling it a story for another time. As fate would have it, the former Boston Red Sox center fielder and seven-time All Star died early yesterday morning at 92. Thus, I will now tell of the time I sought [...]
I found an old notebook this weekend that reminded me of a cool story I haven’t written about before: About five years ago, I got to go inside Joe DiMaggio’s boyhood home. It happened like this: Starting in middle school, I often wrote about baseball for term papers. First, in eighth grade, I decried Pete [...]