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Article: KUP'S COLUMN
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 9, 1991
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The tributes to Leo Durocher, who died in Palm Springs, Calif.,
at 86, were exhaustive and laudatory in covering his baseball lore.
But Leo often was more sinner than saint in his life, which he lived
with all the gusto and symbolism of the song "My Way," as sung by his
idol, Frank Sinatra.
ONE INCIDENT NOT MENTIONED in the obituaries concerned the time
Durocher, then managing the Cubs, left Wrigley Field in the middle of
a game to join his wife, Lynn, to fly to Camp Ojibwa in Wisconsin to
visit her three children by her previous husband, the late Joel
Goldlbatt. Durocher thought he could slip away quietly to attend the
camp's parents' day without telling anyone.
BUT WHEN HE ARRIVED at ...
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