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Joe Grifasi

Joe Grifasi is an American character actor of film, stage, and television. Grifasi has played two separate members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who played for the New York Yankees. In 61*, set in 1961, he played Phil Rizzuto; in The Bronx Is Burning, set in 1977, he played Yogi Berra.

Books for Black History Month

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