The rest of the story. You know when you're a little boy and your daddy calls you good for nothing
That's just got to hurt, but that's what Giuseppe's papa called him good for nothing
Little Giuseppe good for nothing and he wasn't joking you see papa came from a family of fishermen
For 300 years the men in the family had been fishermen and Sicily papa himself was a fisherman
When he came to America he worked on the railroad for a while, but only until he'd saved enough money
To send for his wife and then he headed straight for San Francisco to Fisherman's wharf to become a fisherman again to perpetuate the family tradition
Eventually papa and mama had nine children
You can imagine that all of the boys got their sea legs early began helping papa on his fishing boat from the time they learned to walk
All of them except Giuseppe
Giuseppe didn't want to
Well, you mean you don't want to demanded papa
Well Giuseppe explained that the rocking of the small boat and the smell of the fish made him ill
It wasn't that he didn't want to help out fish just didn't agree with him. That's all
But that wasn't good enough for papa
Far's papa was concerned Giuseppe was good for nothing
The boy had come from a long line of fishermen
There was no reason in the world for the profession to disagree with him
Giuseppe was never too sick to go out and play with his friends. Why then did it make him sick to help his papa?
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Disturbed by his father's criticism
Giuseppe tried very hard to adapt to the family business the rocking of the boat and the smell of the fish still bothered him
So he did what he could turning to other tasks repairing the boat repairing the nets and so forth
But as hard as he would try to remain unaffected the fish smell was still in the gear
Made his already sensitive stomach even more queasy
Until one day Giuseppe quit
Went out and odd job where he could nothing serious
Aaron boy and Giuseppe for boys sometimes he'd pull down a dollar a day
But it wasn't pocket money. It was table money every cent just at the urn was turned over to the household for food and clothing
You think papa'd be proud of his son, but papa
Considered him just lazy odd jobs were lazy jobs according to him real work was helping papa on the fishing boat
And this weighed heavily on the lad he started hiding under the bed when papa came looking for him
He ran off to play sports with his friends when he knew papa was about to call into the fishing boat
tennis was especially interesting
But the tennis passion didn't last long and finally Giuseppe began to believe his father
Perhaps he was a lazy good for nothing who couldn't even stay interested in a sport
Maybe he would never amount to anything
That is the way Giuseppe saw it back then
Everything just seemed sort of gloomy and hopeless
But as it turns out Giuseppe one day became the most successful member of the family
No, no he didn't go back to fishing
Despite his ancestry Giuseppe wouldn't cut out to be a fisherman or a tennis player for that matter
But when Giuseppe finally found something that did interest him sufficiently to stay with it his passion for it was so enormous
That two other brothers quit fishing and joined him
Oh, you've heard of Giuseppe, but by his American first name
So has everybody in the world, I guess
And that great big world beyond fisherman's worth will not forget the fisherman
That got away
And neither will any of us ever forget the boy who forgot about tennis
Only to enter the world of sports and turn that world upside down
For if that young man hadn't been too seasick to join the family business
He would have left a great big vacancy and baseball's hall of fame
Giuseppe was Joe DiMaggio and now you know the rest of the story