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...Squirrel-toothed Joe DiMaggio (TIME, July 14), the man who makes the World Champion New York Yankees run, won the Baseball Writers' award as the American League's "most valuable player of 1947." One vote behind him: unlucky Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who also finished second to Joe six years ago, after batting a spectacular .406. The National League's most valuable player: Third-Baseman Bob Elliot of the third-place Boston Braves...
...well say that Joe DiMaggio is batting so poorly that 14 times out of 45 times at bat he failed to hit a home run. For, make no mistake about it, a gold medal awarded by a California State Fair jury is a home run in wine, and 31 is a lot of gold medals...
From that moment, the improbable became the possible: the unpredictable Dodgers had a chance. Anything could happen: the Dodgers even tried to make the Lavagetto lightning strike twice. The Dodgers were in a fix again next day. Joe DiMaggio had slammed his second homer of the Series into the upper tier of the center-field stands, and the Yanks were leading. With two out in the ninth inning, the Dodgers had the tying run on second base. Pinch-Hitter Cookie Lavagetto stepped up to the plate-and struck out. Now the Yankees were in the lead, three games...
Staggered by the Artists League of America: Yankee Hitter Joe DiMaggio, who found himself on the league's list of "the ten most interesting faces in America." Long-jawed Joe's face, bubbled the artists, was "reminiscent of Modigliani's paintings." Among the other most interesting: Eleanor Roosevelt, Danny Kaye, Sinclair Lewis and Kate Smith. What made Singer Smith's face so interesting: its "simplicity, understanding and kindness...
...thought a tip was any good." If he had any fault, it was his reluctance to yank pitchers when the going got rough. But his patience worked wonders with Joe Page, a relief pitcher with an inferiority complex who did more than any player-aside from DiMaggio-to bring the Yankees their 14th pennant in 27 years...