Pete Hamill
My uncle, a Post legend — 5 years without Pete Hamill https://t.co/WaYrq0Gxsj pic.twitter.com/4KvdSkcujf
— New York Post (@nypost) August 10, 2025
"My uncle, a Post legend — 5 yrs without Pete Hamill https://trib.al/cIBXtyu https://pic.x.com/4KvdSkcujf"
I. I never crossed paths with your Uncle Pete, but I was a big fan of his.
One of his many famous columns from 30-odd years ago was called "Pitchers and Catcher...."
II. He was at Dodgers' camp. A burly, wheelchair-bound man was on the grass. Roy "Campy" Campanella. Campy didn't know Pete, but he recognized the expression on his face. "You're from Brooklyn.... You guys always are."
III. He spent t rest of his life grieving for the Borough of Homes and Churches.Another Hamillism: "My father used to say that the three most evil men of the 20th century were Hitler, Stalin, and (Dodger owner) Walter O'Malley."
IV. During the 1970s, Sinatra sat down for him in a limo for a long interview/essay for New York magazine.
2 comments:
It'll be 6 years next year. That's how life works--foryunately or unfortunately. Hopefully he'll make an appearance on "The Afterlife Tonight Show" sometime.
--GRA
But he was a big bleeding-heart liberal! I remember someone writing a letter to the Post, puncturing his pretense of being a tough Brooklyn street kid- it went something like, "So Hamill says he hung out in my neighborhood, funny we never saw the guy. Then he says the place he usually hung out was the Public Library- no wonder we didn't know him, that's the one place we NEVER went!"
I did save two of his columns that were very moving- one eulogizing Robert Ryan, another on the untimely death of one of the great ladies, Geraldine Brooks. If I get another 100 years to live, maybe I'll scan them and post them online. Hang in there!
-RM
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