Yankees Suck! by Jim Gerard

Author:Jim Gerard [Gerard, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2012-10-09T07:59:21+00:00

PINSTRIPED GOODFELLAS7

The Yankees like to promote their players—especially their superstars—as dignified, upstanding citizens. Bu. throughout Yankee history, some of the walking Monuments cavorted openly with mobsters.

Let’s start with the Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio, who told rackets investigators in 1961 of his friendship with Albert “The Mad Hatter” Anastasia, a Murder, Inc. member who he had met only weeks before Anastasia was gunned down under orders of Carlo Gambino in the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York. When New York City police discovered the DiMaggio-Anastasia connection, they interrogated “the world’s greatest living ballplayer” about his ties to non-baseball hit men such as Paul “Skinny” D’Amato, club owner, convict, and, according to the FBI, member of “La Cosa Nostra,” and gambler Joseph Silesi, a partner of Florida mob boss Santo Trafficante, who some conspiracy theorists later implicated in the JFK assassination.

Joe D. told the Feds that he turned down an offer from Silesi to front for a gambling operation in Cuba because, “due to my image in the eyes of the American youth, I can’t venture into gambling, whiskey, and cigarette endorsements.” 56 DiMaggio then spent the rest of his life peddling banks, coffee machines, and parts of himself. (See Chapter 6: Condemning the House That Ruth Built.)

Number 5 wasn’t the only Yankee who enjoyed the company of wiseguys. According to FBI files, members of the 1972 club also palled around with a mobster who, while in Florida to “establish connections with record bootleggers,” gave the alibi that he was there “to frequent the training camp of the New York Yankees and renew many close associations he had with Yankee ballplayers.” (The mobster’s identity was redacted from the document.)

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