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...Yankees were playing for keeps too. Joe DiMaggio played the entire game. Manager Bucky Harris had let his best hitter go the distance in only three exhibition games-all against the Red Sox. Clearly, each team wanted to establish its superiority before the season even began. It was a war of nerves between the two clubs that would fight it out for the American League flag (the wise guys had already voted the other six clubs out of the running). The Yankees won again...
This spring training, coasting along, Kiner is experimenting with a "standing swing": planting his feet a yard apart at the plate, and belting the ball without stepping into it. This unnatural stance (also used by Joe DiMaggio) takes maximum wrist-snap and timing. Kiner still hasn't got it down right. Against Feller, he struck out once, flied out once. But he expects to top his 51-homer mark this season, earn his 200% raise (to about...
...DiMaggio. 5. Johnny Lujack...
...title as "male athlete of the year." Soon to turn pro, Lujack is one of the four Notre Dame athletes in history who have won four major letters (football, baseball, basketball, track) in a single year. Runners-up to Lujack: Jake Kramer, Joe DiMaggio...
...DiMaggio, baseball's most talented star, haggled with his bosses for $75,000 and signed on the dotted line for about $10,000 less than that. Last year, he struggled along on $43,750. The pay boost made DiMag the fanciest-salaried New York Yankee since Babe Ruth (who once drew $80,000) and put him in a class with baseball's two rich kids: Ted Williams, whose big bat is worth $75,000 a year to the Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland's $80,000-or-more-a-year pitcher, Bob Feller...