‘As it turned out, on cut-down day on Sept. 2, DiGiorgio never did get a call and so suffered all afternoon without knowing — for sure. He was in the hotel lobby when he saw several players packing to leave after having received their pink slips. Still, DiGiorgio wanted to know. Since at 4 p.m. the ax had not fallen, he called his agent to make sure. It was about 4:30 p.m. when the agent called back to say, indeed, he was a Bill.’