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Old Tue Oct 25, 2011, 05:35pm
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Originally Posted by gpdeppert View Post
I read somewhere that it was good that DiMaggio did not play in the television era because fans would have seen him drinking coffee and chain smoking in the dugout.
You can say this about any athlete who played in the era before the media and fans followed athletes' every move.
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