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Turn back the clock: memories from former shortstop Joe DeMaestri.
ON DECEMBER 11, 1959 JOE DeMaestri got the best Christmas present of his life. After eight consecutive years as a shortstop for deep second division denizens of the American League, he had had enough. It was time to go home to the family beer distributing business in northern California.
Then he got a call from the Yankees, informing him that he had been included in the seven-man trade that brought Roger Maris from Kansas City to New York. It took him less than ten seconds to change his mind about retiring. Although the Yankees had finished third in 1959, the chance of a World Series payoff was always good.
"It was the best move I ever made," DeMaestri ...
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