Word: dimaggio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yankees are undoubtedly the strongest-hitting Yankee team since 1939 -when Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Bill Dickey & Co. lowered the boom on hapless Cincinnati in the World Series, won in four straight games. Only three players hit over .300-Elston Howard (.353), Mickey Mantle (.317) and Johnny Blanchard (.305)-but Roger Maris slammed a record 61 home runs, Mantle hit 54, and no fewer than six Yankees hit 20 or more. So powerful was the Yanks' new Murderers' Row that First Baseman Bill Skowron (28 homers) found himself batting seventh in the lineup...
After months of cavorting in Florida and New York with her divorced second husband, Joe DiMaggio, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe returned to Hollywood alone and, reaching for the oldest Sunset Boulevard cliché, told all and sundry that she and Joe were "just good friends." Then, displaying her enlarged vocabulary, she added: "Really...
...also saw in Marilyn Monroe "tremendous native feeling. She has more guts than a slaughterhouse. Being with her, people want not to die. She's all woman' the most womanly woman in the world." Did her miscellaneous loves, her hopeless marriages to the California cop and Joe DiMaggio, trouble him? "I've known social workers who have had a more checkered history than she has," said Miller gallantly. For her part, Monroe murmured dreamily, "We're so congenial. This is the first time I think I've been really in love...
...mental. He has never developed a pro's poise to carry him through inevitable slumps. As a 19-year-old kid out of Commerce, Okla., Mantle was bewildered by the big money and the big publicity that swamped him when he took over the job of Joe DiMaggio in the Yankees' centerfield. Mantle is still a shy, stubborn introvert, who now manages to relax enough among teammates to be judged a wry dugout wit, is respected for playing while injured...
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 20--Willie Mays, sensational outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, tonight was termed the best all around player in baseball--a successor to Joe DiMaggio in that super-category...