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Wednesday, March 10, 1999
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UPPER MONTCLAIR, N. J. — Yogi伯莱根了观看猫 DjMaggio.Once Berra got to the New York Yankees, he continued
Yogi Berra remembers DiMaggio
DiMaggio: Remembered as a role member on the field
trying to solve the mystery of what made the Yankee Clipper one of the greatest ever.
The answer was simple: DiMaggio was perfect.
"Never did any thing wrong on the field. Never did." Berra said sitting
next to a gray 1939 DiMaggio road
jersey on display at Berra's baseball
museum.
Berra never saw DiMaggio dive for a ball.
"You'd see him run to second base, you'd say 'Where in the hell is he going?' Berra said Monday, the day DiMaggio died at age 84. "He got there."
"You've got to admire a man like that," Berra said of DiMaggio, his teammate from 1947 until DiMaggio retired in 1951.
Berra, the catcher who later joined DiMaggio in the Hall of Fame, said he watched DiMaggio play as a kid, growing up in St. Louis. When he came to the Yankees, DiMaggio was the man Berra and other younger players looked up to.
He didn't talk much about the injuries that caused him to leave the game, Berra said, although DiMaggio wouldn't play if he thought he would hurt his team.
Berra saw DiMaggio carefully guard his privacy through the years. Even decades after his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, Berra said, he never mentioned her. And no one else was allowed to mention her if they wanted to remain his friend.
"He was a Yankee, a true Yankee," Berra said.
Former Kansas player signs new contract with Phoenix
TEMPE, Ariz. — Kwamie Lassiter, whose NFC-leading eight interceptions helped the Cardinals to their first playoff berth since 1982, has re-signed with Arizona.
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four interceptions in a final game win against San Diego that clinched a wild-card berth for the Cardinals.
Lassiter, who spent most of his first three NFL seasons as a nickel back, a defensive back put in for long yardage situations, apparently passed up a more lucrative offer from San Diego.
He became a starter at midseason last year and capped the year with
The Tribute, a newspaper serving suburban Phoenix, reported yesterday that the deal was worth an estimated $3.6 million — nearly triple his 1988 salary of about $400,000 but about $300,000 short of the Chargers' offer.
The deal includes a $500,000 sign on the newspaper said.
"I went with what went down at the end of the season," Lassiter told The Tribune after agreeing to the
deal. "The players want to win, and it was a feeling I had."
Lassiter — one of four signing priorities for the Cardinals — had visited the Chargers about two weeks ago, and the team made its initial offer on Friday. It then worked hard to persuade Lassiter on Monday.
"The Chargers told me I'd come in to be a starter, but it's all talk until it happens," Lassiter said. "It was very close to me going there — real close."
Lassiter played for Kansas 1992- 94.
Unlikely Cardinal provides homers
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JUPITER, Fla. — On Mark McGwire's day off, the lightest-hitting St. Louis Cardinals player supplied the power.
Backup infielder David Howard, who has 10 homers in 1,501 career at bats during the regular season, hit two in his first two at bats yesterday in an 8-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles.
Howard's output matched his 1998 season total. His career high of four came in 1996 for Kansas City.
"I don't think I've got 70 my whole life," Howard said, a reference to McGwire's record total last year, "maybe between wiffle ball, Little League and everything I do."
The two solo homers came off Sidney Ponson, who gave up five hits in three innings.
Eli Marrero homered against Rocky Coppinger in the fourth and added an RBI single in the sixth. Sam Pickering hit a two-run homer in the ninth for Baltimore.
But the long-ball barrage didn't please all of the fans that much. Roger Dean Stadium is sold out throughout the spring, but several disgruntled fans left after finding out that McGwire wasn't playing.
"Anytime Mark doesn't play there's some grumbling," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said.
"What can you do? All you can do is ask them, 'Would you rather see him play now and not this summer?' "
Rangers undefeated in last six meetings without Gretzky
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NEW YORK - The New York Rangers lost the Great One and suddenly began playing great hockey.
When Wayne Gretzky went down with a neck injury, Coach John Muckler put Petr Nedved in Gretzky's place on the first line. He told Nedved the team was counting on him to be a leader.
Nedved has responded with five goals and four assists in six games, and the Rangers are undefeated without Gretzky. They extended their streak to 5-0-1 with a 3-2 victory Monday night against Toronto, thanks to Nedved's latest heroics.
Nedved, acquired earlier this season from Pittsburgh, had two goals, including the winner on a power play with 17.3 seconds remaining in overtime. That canped a comback from a 2-0 deficit.
New York pulled into a tie for the eighth and last playoff spot in the NHL's Eastern Conference with 64 points.
Gretzky was examined Monday night by Dr. Patrick O'Leary, who reported no change to the status of his injury, a protruding disc in his neck. Gretzky will receive a cortisone injection within 48 hours and will be reexamined one week from the time of the injection.
Elsewhere in the NHL, Florida beat Montreal 5-2; Ottawa defeated Tampa Bay 9-3; and Carolina won against Buffalo 4-1.
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