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Phil Rizzuto: Not as Loyal to the New York Yankees as We Thought

is a fact of life that baseball fans acknowledge, but deep down, they attempt to deny it with all their might. Baseball fans are more loyal to their team than are the team's players.

When Phil Rizzuto was told that Los Angeles Dodger's manager Tommy LaSorda bleeds Dodgers' blue, Rizzuto responded that he bleeds New York Yankees' pinstripes.

As a Yankees' broadcaster, Rizzuto was unabashedly a "homer." He gave the opposition credit, but he openly rooted for the Yankees.

It appeared that no player had more loyalty to his team than Rizzuto, but when New York's other team unceremoniously released Rizzuto on Old Timers' Day in 1956, they necessarily placed winning ahead of loyalty.

Fans were outraged that Rizzuto, who was the greatest ...

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