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Article: Hemingway's old man fishing for bucks now.(Sports)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 27, 1999
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"I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand."
- Santiago, in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea."
COJIMAR, Cuba - DiMaggio would have understood. He knew the value of a name, right down to the dollar sign.
Not that there is anything wrong with that. When you can't swing a bat or throw a ball anymore, sometimes a name is all you have.
And when you can't fish anymore, sometimes a name is all you have.
Joe DiMaggio indeed would have understood Gregorio Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway's fishing captain on the legendary boat Pilar ...