Word: di
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, against Cleveland's slick Southpaw Al Smith and Righthandy Jim Bagby (who relieved Smith in the eighth), Di Maggio failed to get a ball past the infield. Off Smith, he grounded out twice and drew a walk. Off Bagby, he hit smack into a double play...
...must to all streaks, an end came at last to Joe Di Maggio's batting spree. In a night game in Cleveland's vast Municipal Stadium, just two months and two days after starting the longest batting streak in the history of major-league baseball, Joe went hitless...
...During his streak, Di Maggio used three bats. The first was stolen after he broke George Sisler's modern record of hitting safely in 41 games. The second, with which he cracked Wee Willie Keeler's alltime record of 44, was raffled off in Di Mag's native San Francisco for the benefit of U.S.O. It brought...
...batting streak, the Yankees managed to win their share of ball games. On May 15, when Joe's bat got hot, the Yankees were in fourth place in the American League pennant race, six and a half games behind the league-leading Cleveland Indians. Last week, after Di Maggio's historic homer helped his team win their 20th game in 24, the Yankees were in first place, three games in front of Cleveland. And only two days away was July 4, the traditional day when the league-leader foreshadows the winner of the pennant...
...week's end, Di Maggio had stretched his string to 48 successive games and was still going...