Word: dimaggio
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...asleep a little bit faster on the evenings when you know your favorite team has won. The dreamy, remembered presence of immortals like the Ruths. Cobbs and Aarons which create an almost mystic aura in all big league baseball parks. The excitement generated by Pete Rose attempting to break DiMaggio's record of 56 games. Three-and-two bases loaded two outs bottom of the ninth tie score and Reggie's up. The great legacies of the Yankees. Tigers and even the hapless Cubs History And the tradition...
...DiMaggio had the most famous baseball wife ever--Marilyn Monroe. But some current brides come close. Five points each if you can identify the husbands of golfer Nancy Lopez and illicit film star Chesty Morgan...
...Dennis Menke, Burleigh Grimes (the last legal spitball pitcher), Vic Wertz, Joe DiMaggio, and Tommy Henrich...
...that smells and images and a precise forgotten ache of the heart return hauntingly for a moment. The dramatization that occurs in the mind is intimate and utterly private. One has only to hear a snatch of Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson ("Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?/ A nation turns its lonely eyes to you,/ Woo woo woo") to be again in a rental car chasing Robert Kennedy's whistle-stop primary campaign across northern Indiana in May of 1968. And other memories cascade down on that...
...Steinbrenner's money and methods have quickened a lot of the standard prejudices about the Yankees. They were always the Romans of baseball: triumphal, imperial. They were dynastic; they cherished a memory of the Ruth and the DiMaggio and the Mantle days. But there was rarely much charm or color or heart in rooting for them. The Yankees never appealed much to that side of the American character that likes to root for the underdog...