Thug-thumping granny is a hit

New York Daily News Thug-thumping granny is a hit By Mark Lelinwalla and Jess Wilsloski Monday, May 7th 2007
George Steinbrenner can only hope his hitters have this much moxie.
This article has a delayed lead as it has two articles in one and explains the lead only as it unravels it self at the very end. One article is the Vera Curioli, a 68-year-old grandmother who was being rob at 4:00 am and fought back with a N.Y. Yankee bat at her restaurant in Westchester and other is the die-hard Bombers fan who was brought to Yankee station for her bravery and cool thinking in the attempting robbery at her restaurant.
The article is a good piece of writing and an easy to understand even as there are two articles. The two articles are well written and very accurate. The articles have no real objectivity and are fair as only Curioli seems to be the news story and not the robbery or the trip to Yankee stadium. The articles do take the reader on a roller coaster ride as the article bounces back and forth form the visit to Yankee stadium to the robbery at her restaurant.
The writer does a marvelous job in reporting the accounts of the robbery and the visit to Yankee stadium. The article has a lot of imageries and it putts the reader at Yankee stadium and at the restaurant the morning of the incident. The news reporting of the piece give a serious side to the reader and again a sense of being there, but the trip to Yankee stadium is giving it a humanistic feeling to it as well.
There will be some readers that will find the bouncing back and forth of the article uncomfortable but this is what truly makes this article a readable human interest piece. To many the article is just the robbery and the trip. I could be cut to one forth of its size as most of the article is fluff. The article has a sense of balance with all the extra human facts that it takes on needing them to make the article.