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You Look Hideous
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One Thing Is Crystal Clear, We're All Glad Billy Ball Is Over
Crystal Strikes Out in New Career
"As long as the fans enjoy it, it's great. He has a real love for the Yankees. He's going to help us in the opening of the new stadium and all that." -- 3.13.08, Our Man Hank Steinbrenner
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Baseball Today: Friday, March 14
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... are telling Shelley Duncan to tone done his act. (New York Post)
MR. THURSDAY AFTERNOON: Billy Crystal enjoyed his moment in the sun as the Yankee leadoff hitter, even though he struck out. (New York Daily News) The Daily News' Bill Madden thinks baseball's first owner-showman, Bill Veeck, ''is roaring with laughter . . . at what he would consider the hypocrisy of the lordly Yankees for conceiving such a stunt.'' Our friend Steve Silva is having plenty of laughs himself. (bostondirtdogs.com)
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Billy Crystal whacked himself in the helmet with his backswing, found his shoelaces and socks sabotaged and watched his team lose. Oh, and the New York Yankees rookie struck out in his one and only at-bat as a big leaguer. "It was the strangest, ...
