White, Yanks invisible man, hard to miss
NEW YORK -- There was a time when the Boss told anyone who would listen that he discovered Don Mattingly and ordered his minions to select the young first baseman from Indiana in the ensuing Draft of amateur talent. To hear Steinbrenner tell it, he came across a thumbnail of Mattingly in "Faces in the Crowd" in Sports Illustrated, then issued his command. Problem was, Mattingly's appearance in SI postdated the Draft. Oh well.
Dozens of other instances of revisionist history occurred during the Boss' reign over the Yankees. Billy Martin pointed out as much during a brisk walk through a terminal at O'Hare Field 33 summers ago. And now, armed with information provided by former Yankee Roy White on Tuesday evening, we can offer more revised history, though this revision qualifies as a correction not a distortion.
The bat Bucky Dent used to hit that home run, the one that gave him a new nickname -- that bat -- wasn't the property of Mickey Rivers as all of us had been led to believe. The bat that changed the everything on Oct. 2, 1978, belonged to White, the invisible man of the Yankees in those days.
Shortly after Goose popped up Yaz for the 27th out of the game that decided the American League East championship that year, word spread that Dent had used Rivers' bat to beat Mike Torrez and conquer Fenway's Monster. Bucky had fouled a pitch off his foot and returned to the on-deck circle, we were told, for medical attention. Rivers offered him the bat he was using. Dent accepted and swung his way into history. Assist for Mick the Quick we all thought.
However ... and it's a pretty big however ...
White added some facts and eliminated some other thoughts about that extraordinary baseball afternoon, holding court at Mickey Mantle's on Central Park South on Tuesday evening. He had come to the restaurant that bears the name of his one-time teammate to spread the word about the Damon Runyon 5k Run at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 7. It wasn't a bombshell White dropped -- the baseball world has grown accustomed to addendums and changes in record books, non-fiction books and word of mouth. But White's revelation did prompt something of an explosion. It altered a favored anecdote.
Turns out White had ordered a shipment of new bats in the summer, model R-161. When they arrived, he found them uncomfortable and dumped the new wood on Rivers. His teammate hardly was particular about his weapon. "I can hit with Babe's," The Quick once said, "or Catfish's.
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And if he did miss the Steinbrenner elevator skirmish in '81, speaking of revisionist history, White hardly was alone in that regard. He lasted long enough to marvel at Guidry, enjoy Sparky and see Murcer come back. He experienced Billy and Reggie and
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