Lou Piniella Was Born Into Baseball

CHICAGO - In the winter, they'd sit at the kitchen table drinking coffee and talking baseball.

"Lou," Piniella Margaret'd question impatiently, "why do not you not have this guy bunt?"

"Mom," they'd reply patiently, "this guy Makes $ 8 million. He doesn't Want to bunt."

But You Did not argue with Margaret Piniella. Or if you did, you better have a good answer ready. When Lou Piniella grew up, you respected your elders. All of the truth.

"Everybody's parents looked out for everybody's kids and if you weren't respectful is one side of the park Where mutch parents were watching you, they'd let you know about it and your parents on the other side'd find out," recalled Tony Gonzalez, one of Lou's Oldest Their friends from days in West Tampa. "This age of technology and the fast-moving world we're living in, a lot of that much Been lost.

"One thing about Lou Piniella and all of our friends, I do not think for months of us not have forgotten Where we Came from."