Ex-Yankees catcher spells out what Anthony Volpe is up against: ‘You have to be better’
Wally Pipp took a day off in 1925. Yankees legend Lou Gehrig played first base in his place. Pipp never got his job back. Nearly a century later, baseballs most unforgiving rule hasnt changed one bi… [+3373 chars]
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