Article: Lou Piniella in Personal House of Pain

JIM LITKE, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
10-23-2001
Lou Piniella in Personal House of Pain

NEW YORK (AP) -- He stood on the top step of the visiting dugout transfixed, his eyes mournfully tracking the arc of another baseball about to disappear over the left-field wall of Yankee Stadium.

When it did, Lou Piniella stuffed both hands deep in the pockets of a windbreaker with ``Mariners'' embroidered across the front, plopped down on the bench and let his chin sink into his chest.

Piniella had seen moments like that often enough from the dugout on the other side to know what they meant. These Yankees, like the Yankee ballclubs Piniella joined as a player a quarter-century ago, never let a team ...

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