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Everybody was swapping congratulations. Somebody dropped a dead mouse down somebody's back. Said solemn Joe DiMaggio, veteran of seven World Series: "These celebrations are all alike-but I can stand them." Outside of Joe DiMaggio, the quietest fellow in all the champagne-splashing was the man who did most to win the pennant-Manager Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris...
...correctly that Boston's Red Sox were not paying him $75,000 a season to bunt. He tried hitting to left field, and managed to poke three home runs over the left-field wall, but confessed, "It didn't feel natural." To make matters worse, Rival Joe DiMaggio was having a big season, and such talented johnny-come-latelies as Ralph Kiner and Jackie Robinson were making the headlines...
...pipe; Kramer doesn't smoke. Big Jake's one vice is betting: he will bet anybody on anything. He once won $20 from friends who bet he couldn't down a jigger of beer a minute for 80 minutes. He likes people, poker, bow ties, Joe DiMaggio, and shop talk like "that day at Rye when big Frank Shields grabbed Bitsy Grant by the belt and held him out a second-story window...
When the New York Yankees slammed out 182 home runs during the 1936 season, it looked as if they had a record that would stay on the books for a long time. That year, the Yankees' "Murderers' Row"† included Lou Gehrig (49 homers), Joe DiMaggio (29), Bill Dickey (22), George Selkirk (18), Frankie Crosetti (15). This year, on the other side of the Harlem River, New York Giant fans are being treated to a show of fence-busting that is almost certain to overturn the Yankees' record. By this week, the Giants had banged...
...Blackwell's pitching was the main topic of conversation after the game. Said Ted Williams: "I had an awful time seeing him get rid of the ball. He has it behind him and all of a sudden it's on the way." Said Joe DiMaggio: "This fellow hasn't been around too long. But he's a hell of a good pitcher. ... I didn't connect very solidly." Added Cleveland's Lou Boudreau, who as Feller's manager should know, "Blackwell equals anything we've got in our league. ... As good...