THE TORRE OF LOVE

FAMILY VALUES PAY OFF FOR HIM AND THE YANKS

Joe Torre has a face like...well, like the gift his sister gave him when she went into the convent in 1951. "She gave me a baseball glove, a Rawlings," the New York Yankees manager recalled a few days before he was to lead his team into its 34th World Series but his first. "She told me to say an Our Father every time I put the glove on, figuring if she gave me rosary beads, I'd never say it."

Torre's face is leathery, to be sure, but there's more to the resemblance between mitt and mug than that. Like a good...

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