Word: dimaggio
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...fundamental grid, the geometric beauty of baseball" has always been profound. "My first glove was one left behind by an American soldier in Italy." Giamatti's father Valentine was there on sabbatical from the languages department at Mount Holyoke College. Though Italian enough to feel possessive of DiMaggio ("Yes, both of them; all three of them, as a matter of fact"), "Bart" was born in Boston. "I wanted to be (Second Baseman) Bobby Doerr, to tell you the truth." By wretched geography, he has been shackled for life to the Bosox, whose cap Giamatti has only this week put aside...
...much as the turning of a fresh page, young Mario loved the clean connection of ball and bat. He was a natural athlete. Baseball was his calling; he was a centerfielder, a more compact, combative version of his idol, Joe DiMaggio. Cuomo was good enough for the Pittsburgh Pirates to sign him for a $2,000 bonus to play in their Class D Georgia-Florida League. A scouting report prepared at the time singled out Cuomo for his talent and his aggressiveness: "He is another who will run over you if you get in his way." Once, when a catcher...
...greater Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio...
...couple of spectators are continuing the eternal debate: Who was better, Joe DiMaggio, or Ted Williams? Nobody wins. Nobody loses...
...were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel's Old Perfessor act that slipped on and off like a warmup jacket, of Billy Martin's violent insecurities, of the Hodgkin's disease that killed his father and afflicts his son. There is considerably more than towel snapping here...