Joe Torre’s remarkable baseball life in the spotlight at All-Star Game

They will play the star match in Atlanta a week from Tuesday evening and even if it is not the middle of the middle of the summer that it was in the past, for many different reasons, it is always the best game of the stars that we have left. And this one, as always, will be an opportunity to celebrate the game, and especially so many of its young stars.

But this star match will also be an opportunity, in the Braves reception park, to celebrate an old Braves recipient named Joe Torre, three days before his 85th anniversary.

Mr. Torre will be in a uniform of the Yankees Road for this match, and in the canoe as an honorary coach for the director of the American League Aaron Boone, who has already struck a fairly famous circuit to win Mr. Torre a pennant of the American League.

And really, in many ways, it is an ideal way to honor one of the remarkable baseball lives that the game has ever seen or never known, the story he saw and the story he made on the path of the temple of fame as manager; And the story he made on the field, in a career that was not too far from taking him to Cooperstown as a player.

I asked him the other day when he went back the first time he was in uniform in a stars match.

“Cleveland,” replied Joe Torre. “1963.”

In all, he made nine All-Star games as a player. I pointed out to him that two years after Cleveland, he hit his first Home Run All-Star in 1965.

“Taken the nine rounds too,” said Torre.

He played 18 seasons in the big leagues. He left with an average of the stick for life of 0.297, an average made without, let’s face it, obtaining many legs. He ceased to finally catch up and became an inner field player, mainly to the third goal. He had 100 RBI or more than five times and in 1971, with the cardinals at that time, he struck 0.363 with 230 strokes-Did I mention that he had not run exactly like Willie Mays? – and 137 RBI and became MVP of the National League. Again: I always thought that he should have obtained much more love from Cooperstown for a career like that than him.

At least later, after taking its place with the best Yankee managers of all, the temple of the national baseball renown finally received an honored guest like him.

He played for the brave of Milwaukee when he was a child and then managed the brave of Atlanta. He played for the cardinals and managed the cardinals. He played for the food and managed the dishes. In many ways, of course, it was like tests outside the city – even in Queens – on the way to work the largest room in baseball, which means Yankee Stadium.

So much, however, had happened to him in baseball before approaching the stadium. He was 16 years old and was seated in the older bridge of the old stadium in 1956 to watch the perfect game of Don Larsen in the World Series. Hope this year – Dream? – was that his brother Frank, a brave player before him, would play against the Yankees in the series. But the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the brave for the pennant.

Frank managed to make her little brother make a ticket for the series anyway. Joe Torre took the ticket for his teachers to St. Frances Prep and received the day off, no one knows exactly how many history would be made that day in the Bronx. Four years later, still a teenager, he made his debut in the big leagues with the former team of his brother.

Still: the first real point of light on the map was almost 70 years ago, Larsen launching the only perfect game in the history of World Series, the day ended when he jumped in the arms of Yogi Berra, one of the most famous famous Yankees and Catchers.

Thanks to all this, Joe Torre never won a match in the playoffs until he arrived at the Yankees in 1996. There had already been these three management jobs, food and brave and cardinals, and at that time, he thought he was out of chance, that his baseball career was in the broadcast stand. Then, George Steinbrenner dismissed Buck Showalter and Joe obtained the post, and it was only the start of the last, large Yankee dynasty. The start of the Torre Yankees. No one could have known at the time that he was about to become as admired as the top manager as in a professional sport at the time.

It was made for this team, for this place, to Steinbrenner; For everything. Every afternoon, he sat in the canoe surrounded by the media and gave a master class on the way you were supposed to act with work like this, and especially this work. I remember taking the long, slow and painful walk with him under the Yankee stadium after the Marlins upset the Yankees in the ’03 series to congratulate Jack McKeon, the manager of the Marlins, 72. But then Torre has always known that there was a certain way of acting.

It was another famous child of Brooklyn, Pete Hamill, who said it once about him:

“When Torre leaves one day, it will be as if a hundred guys had left the room.”

And it was. He ended up managing the dodgers, against which Larsen launched his perfect game when he was a child of Brooklyn. In many ways, even if he has never won another series after leaving the Yankees, he had managed to reach all the bases.

His Yankees won four World Series in five years and three in a row and we all know how close they got, as close as you could come – Mariano Rivera on the mound against the Diamondbacks, at the bottom of the 9th, match 7 in 2001, in advance of 1 round – to make five series in six years. A few years later, there was one night in Fenway Park when Mo Rivera did not obtain these last three withdrawals against the Red Sox, match 4 of the series of Championships of the American League in ’04. Even if no one could have imagined at the time, the Yankees were not going to win a Torre series another, did not even go back even after having driven three games.

And yet: how many other men, in the whole history of baseball, have already had a career as rich and long and memorable and full of class and grace as his?

Now, in nine days, he returns to the place where the brave – his first team – are playing now. But you would better believe that it comes back as Yankee and a large Yankee. A Yankee of the temple of fame. In doing so, the Grand Joe Torre touches once again. At home being baseball.

The pitch for the food is dangerous, Jasson on the Rise & Gleyber is an All-Star (for the tigers)…

One of my friends who is a big fan of Knicks asked this in one email the other day:

“It is the same as Leon Rose who died Tyrese Haliburton in the 20 -year -old draft, took Obi Toppin in front of him, then gave Toppin for some draft choices in the second round, right?”

And by the way?

It is a fan not even hysterical that Tom Thibodeau obtained it as he did.

So many dishes have been injured so far this season, I expect them to put Jacob Degrom on the usual list by habit.

Please keep in mind that astros do what they do during a season when their best striker – Yordan Alvarez – played in just 29 games and obtained 100 strikers because of injuries.

My mathematics can be slightly offset, but I believe that Mark Leiter Jr. is during pitch in 642 games for Yankees this season.

There is the idea, and not long ago, that the Yankees had two closers at Luke Weaver and Devin Williams, except that last week, they seemed to have no closure.

We continue to read and hear that Jordan Clarkson is an “old sixth man of the year”.

Well, yes, four years ago, it was.

Jasson Dominguez is better Gette.

When does Anthony Volpe do the same?

Good news for Yankee fans:

Their team was locked up Dj Lemahieu for a year after this one.

Roman Anthony, The Hot Kid for the Red Sox, is fun to watch.

50 years ago, Arthur Ashe upset Jimmy Connors – at a time when Jimmy seemed unbeatable – in the Wimbledon final, one of the most unforgettable moments in the history of this place.

Naomi Osaka, who won four major championships when she was only a child, is only 27 years old.

But this Wimbledon is another adult where it does not go to the second week; Where she makes you ask you again, even if she clearly has a world of talent, when we could see her again at her best.

If we will see her at her best.

Isn’t it time for the fever of dreaming that LeBron finally came to the Knicks?

At least, Joey Chestnut being back restores a semblance of order to the universe.

Well, yes, what better way to celebrate the country’s 250th anniversary with a UFC fight on the lawn of the White House?

Gleyber Torres.

All-Star Second Base.

I have to prick, right?

Just a little?

Yankees need more than a new third goal player.

Maybe much more.