Word: dimaggio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regularly clicking open her compact, rolling more lipstick onto each sufficient coat of it, clicking it closed, Mrs. Ruth gazed around the park. Out on the field, not far from her stood Joe DiMaggio, walled in by adoring reporters. Joe Louis stood close. Strolling around the new grass, having a swell time like college kids in Fort Lauderdale, were Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Clutching a black cane Toots Shor watched the men on the field. It must have seemed impossible to Toots that DiMaggio was 61, or that Mantle and Ford were entering middle age: they were kids when...
Just then Whitey Ford was introduced. Everybody cheered. Then Yogi Berra and everybody laughed and yelled. Then Mickey Mantle and the Stadium stood and made that noise thousands of people make when they greet a hero. Finally, Joe DiMaggio's name came over the expensive new sound system, paid for by money that had gone through George Steinbrenner's fingers and Pat Cunningham's. The small enclosed city stood as a unit for the great DiMaggio. Governor Carey, Cunningham, all of them stood...
...past when a player faced an owner across the bargaining table, the owner was in a position to be a rock and the player could either sign his contract or go dig rocks. "Joe DiMaggio would never have played out his option," say traditionalists. But they are wrong...
...Sure I would have been tempted to play out my option," DiMaggio told TIME last week. "After my fourth season I asked for $43,000 and General Manager Ed Barrow told me, 'Young man, do you realize Lou Gehrig, a 16-year man, is playing for only $44,000?' I said, 'Mr. Barrow, there is only one answer to that-Mr. Gehrig is terribly underpaid.' And then there was the season I hit in 56 straight games [1941]. When I came in to talk contract, I was offered...
...fourth season with the Yankees, All-Star Yogi Berra was paid $14,000. The by then immortal DiMaggio made $89,000, Rizzuto $37,700. The whole roster's salaries totaled $413,000. This year's Yankees-a team that most experts figure will finish third in their division-make...