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What kind of nation have we become that we sit still for slime "journalists" like Richard Ben Cramer, and their publishers, to rake in big bucks by destroying the reputation of another human being? What exactly was DiMaggio's sin that his coveted privacy should be stripped away from him in death -- that he was human like all the rest of us? Even through Cramer's curtain of malice, DiMaggio's heroism shines through -- his sense of obligation to his teammates; his willingness to endure daily pain such as few of us will ever know, in order to perform his duty; his refusal to be a blabbermouth about the people he loved. Obviously DiMaggio's greatest failing in the eyes of modern… Read more
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