Word: dimaggio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of his fellow New Yorkers com plain about crime. Charlie DiMaggio, 62, does something about it. Owner of a closet-sized grocery store ,on Lexington Avenue just south of Spanish Harlem, DiMaggio has been the victim of 26 holdups in 20 years. He has thwarted the bandits 16 times, shot four robbers, and helped arrest twelve others. And that, as Cousin Joe, the erstwhile Yankee Clipper would agree, is pretty good clipping. Last week three armed Negroes walked into the store for Holdup No. 26. Shoving Charlie into the wash room, they scooped $300 from the cash register...
They said they were minding their own business, just a bunch of guys named Roger Maris, 30, Clete Boyer, 28, Joe DiMaggio and Hal Reniff having a quiet snort in a dark bar after a hard day at the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale training camp. But Male Model Jerome Modzelewski, at the next table, says somebody tossed a wild pitch at his girl. Maris says Jerome kept damning the four Yankees. Anyhow, Modzelewski wound up with a badly cut lip, eleven stitches and the distinct impression that Maris was going for 61. He charged Roger and Clete with assault...
...Hank Bauer's middle name should have been "Hustle." Maybe he wasn't a DiMaggio, but he could get to a line drive pretty darned fast and still make it look easy. He played a good rightfield, and at Yankee Stadium that isn't easy. He was a pretty good man in the clutch too. Many was the time he would literally bend over backward or fall into the seats in right to catch aspiring homers. It's a great pennant race this year. I'd like to wish Hank Bauer luck, but since...
Everything Hard. Around the Yankees, .180 hitters usually catch the first milk train back to the farm. Not Bauer; he was around for eleven years, nine pennants and seven world championships. He was no DiMaggio, no Ruth, no Gehrig, no Mantle. He never hit more than 26 homers in a single season, never made more than $34,500 a year, never led the league in anything-except hustle. And that made him a Yankee great...
Musial and his wife Lilian will be guests of the Yankees and will be escorted to the box behind the Yankee dugout by Joe DiMaggio...