Word: career
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...offering alumni the chance to do more than flaunt the old school tie. It's a lot more high tech now. About 20% of major universities offer online databases that help you find other alums who can offer guidance and assistance, says Cindy Chernow, director of the alumni career-services department at the University of California, Los Angeles. About 4,500 UCLA alums, out of 276,000 graduates, have volunteered to network online with other alumni. At Harvard's graduate business school, almost half the school's 60,000 alums have volunteered to advise other graduates seeking job changes through...
...defining event of DiMaggio's career occurred in 1941, when he got at least one base hit in 56 consecutive games--a feat of consistency no other player has come close to matching. Evolutionary biologist (and sports buff) Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that "DiMaggio's streak is the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports...
...noble, and he looked great and he married Marilyn Monroe. But first he played baseball, and it's for what he did on the field that Joe DiMaggio should be remembered. His career, like so many in baseball, can best be divined by a sequence of numbers. First, and most famous, is 56. But several others matter as well...
...times. Reggie Jackson flailed in vain 313 times in two seasons. It is almost always part of the slugger's makeup, the monstrous whiff as companion to the mighty blast. But DiMaggio's relation to a pitched ball was as intimate as it was brutal. In his entire career he struck out only 369 times--this while hitting 361 home runs. During the magical 1941 season, he had 30 home runs, 13 strikeouts. (There are single weeks when modern sluggers strike out 13 times.) From his spread-legged stance, his twisting follow-through, the absolute balance of his swing...
Perhaps the best measure of a hitter is not his batting average but his run production. DiMaggio batted "only" .325 over his career, but he batted in nearly a run per game--the third highest average this century, after Lou Gehrig's and Hank Greenberg's. DiMaggio delivered more runs per game than Babe Ruth; more than Ted Williams; 27% more than Hank Aaron...