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One win­ter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house. We don't want any­thing other than the house we live in. We don't want any­thing from you. Just leave.' And he left.

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
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Joseph Paul Torre
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