I find this pretty hard to believe. First, that Joe DiMaggio would be going up to the "will call" window HIMSELF to pick up tickets, and second, that even if they weren't there, that someone wouldn't have made a call or RUN THEIR FAT ASS up to someone in corporate to tell them that a pissed off Joe D. wants tickets to the game.
Vendor: "What do you want me to say? I just work here?"
DiMaggio: "Not for long."
I saw a clip of Cosell interviewing DiMaggio before Game 3 in '78 (the first Yank home game of that Series), and Cosell's closing comment suggests that the scene above actually happened. And Joe really didn't throw out the first ball in the '77 Series until Game 6.
@UncleMikeNJ It was a tradition after DiMaggio retired that he always threw out the first pitch before the Yankees' first home game in a World Series after he retired. I know he thre the first pitch in '81 and '96 as well, but he was hospitalized and couldn't in '98 then passed away in March of '99.
BTW, what became of those blue (glass?) letters that spelled out "Y-A-N-K-E-E S-T-A-D-I-U-M" on the exterior of the old joint? My first name begins with a D. I would LOVE to own that old Yankee blue (again, glass?) D!
Man...0:02-0:03...I really miss The Stadium now. :-( It's like the people say, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone." That's not entirely true, but I really miss the old joint. (Well, it was the "old joint" for me. I was only born in '83. But for our Bombers fans over, let's say, 45, the "old joint" died back in '73.) I'm still gonna go Uptown to the BX and try and get a piece (or a little dirt?) from the "ruins." The new digs are decent. But the old joint was pure greatness.
this clip of the clipper is one of his better moods as radio and news journalists we got to see him first hand tell people where to shove their interview requests. Other times he wouldn't say a word but gave you that steely look and turned away.
@wongleebruce That's what I got from reading Richard Ben Cramer's book. Basically, the Clipper was a model of Christian humility and compassion...as long as he was standing next to the Georgia Peach.
@loyaldude10 Yeah. Unlike Williams, DiMaggio knew how to keep his cool. In fact, if anything, he kept it too cool. Human warmth and friendliness often seemed alien to him.
This really is some scene, very well done! DiMaggio was an eccentric hothead. In the book "DiMaggio" I read where he was in New York City with the well known baseball collector Barry Halper. He had the limo pull over at an icecream stand and took out $3. to cover two cones. The girl said "that's $5.50" and he took his money back and walked. Halper said to him "You're problem Joe is that you've been on scholarship for too many years". They parted as friends and never spoke again.
My new book on the great 1978 Yankees team, The Greatest Comeback Ever, is the only book ever written by a fan, live-time on a great sports season. It's available at Amazon.
I loved this mini-series back in the summer of '07 (the 30th anniversary of our great city's awesome--at least it looked awesome to me--summer of 1977. Cop Spike Lee's 1999 classic, "Summer of Sam," too!). With the exception of that decent Kobe documentary (also directed by Spike) from earlier this year, this mini-series is probably the best thing bum-ass ESPN has ever aired. Since this frist decade--the 21st century--has begun, ESPN has been DEAD meat. :)
As for that cat who played him...I didn't like him as Joey D. Didn't like Oliver Platt as "Da Boss," either. But I LOVED (PAUSE!) John Turturro as Billy. He had everything about Billy Martin on lock: the silm body, the face, and, of course, them BIG-ass ears! Lol! He was perfect. The dude who played Reggie (Daniel Sunjata) was cool. They could've found someone who looked closer to him, IMO... And the dude who played Thurman Munson (Erik Jensen) was really on-point.
@BrooklynEagle Christopher McDonald wasn't believable at all. (Though I notice he portrays Joe as having an entourage. Maybe he wasn't as much of a throwback as we thought!) He was great as Mel Allen in "61," but in that one, Joe Grifasi (Yogi in this) was terrible as Phil Rizzuto. The guy who played Piniella was right on, too.
how about the fans who got screwed last month after they were told it was a rain out vs boston and then the game started and they would not let the fans back in. THE YANKEES ARE FUCKED UP ! serves the bastards right !
Dimaggio was a Class-A jerk of a human being. The best way to tell what people think of an athlete is how they talk about them when they die. If they talk about how great an athlete you were, that means they didn't like you. If they talk about how great a person you were, that means they liked you. When Ted Williams died, everyone talked about what a great human being he was. All I heard after Dimaggio died was, "He was a great baseball player." Says it all.
I heard alot of the same things about Joe, which is sad. It's very disappointing to hear these things about such a great player, but you're right, the only thing you heard was that he was a great player, not a great person.
Christopher McDonald was fine as Mel Allen in "61*," but he neither looks nor sounds like DiMaggio. If anything, his face makes him look more like Mantle. In that earlier film, Michael Nouri was OK as the Clipper. Then again, Joe Grifasi played Phil Rizzuto in "61*" and looked nothing like him; he's great as Yogi in this.
The Bronx is Burning is one of theeee greatest t.v. series ive ever seen in my life, i wont lie i hate the Yankees with a passion (no disrespect or dissin) but i really loved this show with a passion. I recently watched the last episode (that i was holding off on cuz i never wanted to end)....and i honestly got tears in my eyes, its so classic, and the guys they got to play the players in the series are soo much like them.
Yup, good stuff, speaking as another Yankee hater myself (though I was rooting for them back then). Beside the fact that probably 3/4 of the cars shown, notably George's own limo, were 1982 or '83 and newer and Yogi was playing with a RUBIK'S CUBE, also from 4 years in the FUTURE, in one of the deleted DVD scenes, it was good. Ollie's portrayal of King George was %&@%#$ hilarious. Don't recall seeing any mention of their 19-3 home loss to the 107-loss BJays that June tho; George loved it.
yeah , well, i guess sometimes genius and greatness find it HARD to 'suffer' fools and less than their level of expectation...when u r joe dimaggio , picasso , mozart or anyone great in your chosen field , and u oput everything into what u are and do , and find it hard to tolerate less from others , then u can be percieved as an 'ass'....joe was GHREAT and regal..and when one attains hieghts , it is easier to be visible and have arrows slung their way
So, if you're a great Baseballp player that gives you the righnt to look down on people? The guy in the ticket booth was obviously starstruck, and overwhelmed, and Joe treated him like he was less than human. And I have heard other stories of Joe treating as if they were beneath him. Joe was a great ballplayer, that's all!! I guess money and fame do not buy class.
yea no way he wouldnt have gotten in
SUNMAYDEN518 4 months ago
He didn't need tickets, he could just walk through the gate, who's going to say anything to him?
JENDALL714 5 months ago
@JENDALL714 I thought retired MLB players had lifetime passes.
torgman 5 months ago
I find this pretty hard to believe. First, that Joe DiMaggio would be going up to the "will call" window HIMSELF to pick up tickets, and second, that even if they weren't there, that someone wouldn't have made a call or RUN THEIR FAT ASS up to someone in corporate to tell them that a pissed off Joe D. wants tickets to the game.
FrankieJVA 6 months ago
i would have sweated a pool if that was me
psu68born 8 months ago
that dufus should have let him in
SUNMAYDEN518 9 months ago
and your point watch????
SUNMAYDEN518 1 year ago
THE TICKET GUY IS AN ASS
SUNMAYDEN518 1 year ago
@SUNMAYDEN518
Maybe the ass is a ticket guy?
watchNHK 1 year ago
Here's what should have been said:
Vendor: "What do you want me to say? I just work here?"
DiMaggio: "Not for long."
I saw a clip of Cosell interviewing DiMaggio before Game 3 in '78 (the first Yank home game of that Series), and Cosell's closing comment suggests that the scene above actually happened. And Joe really didn't throw out the first ball in the '77 Series until Game 6.
UncleMikeNJ 1 year ago
@UncleMikeNJ It was a tradition after DiMaggio retired that he always threw out the first pitch before the Yankees' first home game in a World Series after he retired. I know he thre the first pitch in '81 and '96 as well, but he was hospitalized and couldn't in '98 then passed away in March of '99.
vccstudents 1 year ago
BTW, what became of those blue (glass?) letters that spelled out "Y-A-N-K-E-E S-T-A-D-I-U-M" on the exterior of the old joint? My first name begins with a D. I would LOVE to own that old Yankee blue (again, glass?) D!
BrooklynEagle 1 year ago
Man...0:02-0:03...I really miss The Stadium now. :-( It's like the people say, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone." That's not entirely true, but I really miss the old joint. (Well, it was the "old joint" for me. I was only born in '83. But for our Bombers fans over, let's say, 45, the "old joint" died back in '73.) I'm still gonna go Uptown to the BX and try and get a piece (or a little dirt?) from the "ruins." The new digs are decent. But the old joint was pure greatness.
BrooklynEagle 1 year ago
this clip of the clipper is one of his better moods as radio and news journalists we got to see him first hand tell people where to shove their interview requests. Other times he wouldn't say a word but gave you that steely look and turned away.
wongleebruce 1 year ago
@wongleebruce That's what I got from reading Richard Ben Cramer's book. Basically, the Clipper was a model of Christian humility and compassion...as long as he was standing next to the Georgia Peach.
moogamax 1 year ago
@moogamax ---DiMaggio was a real self centered jerk. Guess in his time, he also seemed pretty gentlemanly, when compared to Ted Williams
loyaldude10 1 year ago
@loyaldude10 Yeah. Unlike Williams, DiMaggio knew how to keep his cool. In fact, if anything, he kept it too cool. Human warmth and friendliness often seemed alien to him.
moogamax 1 year ago
This really is some scene, very well done! DiMaggio was an eccentric hothead. In the book "DiMaggio" I read where he was in New York City with the well known baseball collector Barry Halper. He had the limo pull over at an icecream stand and took out $3. to cover two cones. The girl said "that's $5.50" and he took his money back and walked. Halper said to him "You're problem Joe is that you've been on scholarship for too many years". They parted as friends and never spoke again.
davisracquet 1 year ago
Poor Joe...lol...no tickets!
3443bh 2 years ago
My new book on the great 1978 Yankees team, The Greatest Comeback Ever, is the only book ever written by a fan, live-time on a great sports season. It's available at Amazon.
pkeck1 2 years ago
LET'S GO YANKS! 27-Time World Champs!!! (Embrace the 2009 squad, people, but never forget the '77 Bombers. Real talk.)
BrooklynEagle 2 years ago
I loved this mini-series back in the summer of '07 (the 30th anniversary of our great city's awesome--at least it looked awesome to me--summer of 1977. Cop Spike Lee's 1999 classic, "Summer of Sam," too!). With the exception of that decent Kobe documentary (also directed by Spike) from earlier this year, this mini-series is probably the best thing bum-ass ESPN has ever aired. Since this frist decade--the 21st century--has begun, ESPN has been DEAD meat. :)
"The Bronx is Burning" was great! :)
BrooklynEagle 2 years ago
"Joltin' Joe DiMaggio"!!!
As for that cat who played him...I didn't like him as Joey D. Didn't like Oliver Platt as "Da Boss," either. But I LOVED (PAUSE!) John Turturro as Billy. He had everything about Billy Martin on lock: the silm body, the face, and, of course, them BIG-ass ears! Lol! He was perfect. The dude who played Reggie (Daniel Sunjata) was cool. They could've found someone who looked closer to him, IMO... And the dude who played Thurman Munson (Erik Jensen) was really on-point.
BrooklynEagle 2 years ago
@BrooklynEagle Christopher McDonald wasn't believable at all. (Though I notice he portrays Joe as having an entourage. Maybe he wasn't as much of a throwback as we thought!) He was great as Mel Allen in "61," but in that one, Joe Grifasi (Yogi in this) was terrible as Phil Rizzuto. The guy who played Piniella was right on, too.
UncleMikeNJ 1 year ago
how about the fans who got screwed last month after they were told it was a rain out vs boston and then the game started and they would not let the fans back in. THE YANKEES ARE FUCKED UP ! serves the bastards right !
azbaldy5 2 years ago
hahah its shooter mcgavin!
JHsoxfan11 2 years ago 7
@JHsoxfan11 HAHAHA! That was good!...Whers Happy when you need him
gofigure17sk8 1 year ago
you suk balls but fuck you
satmes 2 years ago
poor guy that guys gonna remember being treated like that for the rest of his life
hlev123 2 years ago 2
GO YANKEES!!! and DiMaggio!
art0l0zaga7 3 years ago 2
my friends is in this episode cathy but do u know where i can watch the full episode at ?
ghgirl2012 3 years ago
hey pqshindelus he was the best demmn baseball ever and stop being a assholoe to him GOT IT
kittykat6681 3 years ago
Dimaggio was a Class-A jerk of a human being. The best way to tell what people think of an athlete is how they talk about them when they die. If they talk about how great an athlete you were, that means they didn't like you. If they talk about how great a person you were, that means they liked you. When Ted Williams died, everyone talked about what a great human being he was. All I heard after Dimaggio died was, "He was a great baseball player." Says it all.
pqshindelus 3 years ago 2
I heard alot of the same things about Joe, which is sad. It's very disappointing to hear these things about such a great player, but you're right, the only thing you heard was that he was a great player, not a great person.
43gameover 3 years ago
In 61* they made him look like a douche too. At least Mantle was a cool guy.
Spengler56 2 years ago
DiMaggio forgot the magic words: "Babe Ruth."
radio187 3 years ago 2
Christopher McDonald was fine as Mel Allen in "61*," but he neither looks nor sounds like DiMaggio. If anything, his face makes him look more like Mantle. In that earlier film, Michael Nouri was OK as the Clipper. Then again, Joe Grifasi played Phil Rizzuto in "61*" and looked nothing like him; he's great as Yogi in this.
UncleMikeNJ 3 years ago
The Bronx is Burning is one of theeee greatest t.v. series ive ever seen in my life, i wont lie i hate the Yankees with a passion (no disrespect or dissin) but i really loved this show with a passion. I recently watched the last episode (that i was holding off on cuz i never wanted to end)....and i honestly got tears in my eyes, its so classic, and the guys they got to play the players in the series are soo much like them.
mordecai8614 4 years ago 3
Yup, good stuff, speaking as another Yankee hater myself (though I was rooting for them back then). Beside the fact that probably 3/4 of the cars shown, notably George's own limo, were 1982 or '83 and newer and Yogi was playing with a RUBIK'S CUBE, also from 4 years in the FUTURE, in one of the deleted DVD scenes, it was good. Ollie's portrayal of King George was %&@%#$ hilarious. Don't recall seeing any mention of their 19-3 home loss to the 107-loss BJays that June tho; George loved it.
reprobacious 3 years ago
I'm sure Joe is rotting in Hell for being arrogant and a typical Elitist scumbag!!!!
burbonboy 4 years ago
That's Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore.
trishacd 4 years ago 3
Dimaggio was an asshole. Many people have verified that he treated people like crap including teamates!!
burbonboy 4 years ago
yeah , well, i guess sometimes genius and greatness find it HARD to 'suffer' fools and less than their level of expectation...when u r joe dimaggio , picasso , mozart or anyone great in your chosen field , and u oput everything into what u are and do , and find it hard to tolerate less from others , then u can be percieved as an 'ass'....joe was GHREAT and regal..and when one attains hieghts , it is easier to be visible and have arrows slung their way
good day
darrin924 4 years ago
So, if you're a great Baseballp player that gives you the righnt to look down on people? The guy in the ticket booth was obviously starstruck, and overwhelmed, and Joe treated him like he was less than human. And I have heard other stories of Joe treating as if they were beneath him. Joe was a great ballplayer, that's all!! I guess money and fame do not buy class.
burbonboy 4 years ago 2
his voice is deep
wcvhboy 4 years ago
actually dimaggio was known to be a real jerk
yanksrory 4 years ago
I heard and read that too.
wooddog21 4 years ago
dimaggio never acted like that in real life that was a bad job on the guy who played joe D
NereidDeimos 4 years ago