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...ordinary day such aches & pains would have put Centerfielder DiMaggio out of the lineup. But no day last week was an ordinary one in the American League. The Yankees were fighting for survival in the hottest pennant race in history, and they needed DiMag...
...ballplayers felt the tension too. In the Yankee dressing room, they kept nervously assuring each other that they didn't have pennant jitters. (The strain registered on steady Joe DiMaggio: he was up to a pack of Chesterfields a day.) Cleveland's Indians had lost only three games since Sept. 8; all anybody had to do to make them jump was strike a match...
With the New York Yankees, it is Joe DiMaggio. He had only missed one game all season, and he was leading the big parade in baseball's most spectacular departments: home runs (39) and runs batted...
...Pushups. At 33, Joe DiMaggio has black hair, beginning to be flecked with grey. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and solid (198 lbs.) in the smart double-breasted suits he wears off the playing field, he might be mistaken for a man with an office in midtown Manhattan. The tipoff that he is an athlete is his walk. It has a flowing, catlike quality, without waste motion...
Part of Joe's notions about his daily regimen come from a talk he once had with Ty Cobb, after DiMaggio's first year with the Yankees. Cobb told him that a good outfielder was crazy to spend 15 minutes a day shagging fly balls once he got in shape: "Don't spend your hitting energy chasing flies. Grab a few and then sit down in a cool, shady spot." DiMag has been conserving his energy ever since. He even seems to conserve it on the playing field...