Word: dimaggio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these traditional homes of the small saver are fairly scrambling for deposits. New customers are being lured by both familiar freebies (toasters, tickets to shows) and new appeals. For example, New York's big Bowery Savings Bank (assets: $5 billion) now has its longtime pitchman, Yankee Slugger Joe DiMaggio, asking folks to take money out of stocks and put it into thrift accounts because it is "a calmer investment." And at some banks, depositors wanting to make sizable withdrawals have found themselves practically grilled by officials about their reasons for doing...
...DiMaggio 92)"You stink" 93)BroccaBella 94)Willie Horton 95)Lindy and Von McDaniel 96)Lloyd and Paul Waner 97)harry and Stan Coveleski 98)Matty and Felipe Alou 99)Rick and Paul Reuschel 100)Mort and Walker Cooper 101)Lou Boudreau, Mary Marion and Don Kessinger 102)George and Dick Sisler 103)Ralph Houk...
...whom did Joe DiMaggio hit his first World Series home...
...wide to the applause. It stands out among the over 100 pictures, including some fine old shots of Ruth and Gehrig, which give this book the quality of a family picture album. The appendix lists the all-time Yankee statistical leaders and provides a game-by-game abstract of DiMaggio's streak and Maris's miracle year. And there's smooth writing throughout, particularly in Anderson's chapter on the DiMaggio years...
BASEBALL INTRINSICALLY rejects the cult of personality, the People magazine approach to life. Sure, ballplayers have personalities; but they develop personalities on the field as well--DiMaggio's kingly elegance, Ryne Duren's fastball-to-the-loge weirdness. Thurman Munson's combative surliness--and, in the end, these personalities are more engaging. For the most part, you get these personalities in The Yankees, personalities on grass and clay, not carpeting. Your team, maybe, Remember Ross Moschito...