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...FANS' TOP 10 MOMENTS 10. Ryan's 7th no-hitter 9. DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak 7. Ted Williams hits .406 6. Rose passes Cobb for hits 5. Gehrig's farewell speech 4. McGwire and Sosa chase Maris 3. Robinson breaks color barrier 2. Aaron passes Ruth for HRs 1. Ripken becomes Iron...
...rest of the top-ten field was solid (see box). Aaron, Robinson, McGwire, Gehrig, Williams, DiMaggio: these men earned respect, and strong men misted up to see most of the survivors on the field as their moments were announced. It was also tonic to see the game's medieval power and glamour recognized. Five of the ten moments took place more than a half-century ago. Baseball, more than any other sport, is its past. Commissioner Bud Selig wanted the fans to remember this - and not the more recent stains on the game - when he first announced that the Memorable...
...Daniel DiMaggio ’04 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. He is a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement...
...more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self-perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory. But it's also a remarkably rich portrait of an intentionally elusive man. (Joe DiMaggio, notes Leavy, "marketed his privacy; Koufax cherishes his.") Leavy doesn't give us intimate details about her subject's life--his two marriages rate just three sentences--but still makes him real and knowable and writes so well that she doesn't resort to the sort of cliche that begins this paragraph...
Little Italy’s remains cling around the intersection of interstate highways and UIC’s circle campus; what is left is demarcated by a few restaurants and a statue of Joe DiMaggio. Greektown is a collection of lively eateries, a few Greek columns, bakeries, and an increasingly young, professional population inhabiting lofts. As the 60 route takes me through each of these neighborhoods, I wonder about the permanence of other establishments I take for granted, especially my own neighborhood...