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...year of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, DiMaggio had a hit in every spring-training game. The principle was not lost on Torre, who wanted to win in Florida and acquaint the team with the sensation early. The Braves won twelve of their first 14 spring games, and now the players do not seem as amazed as the fans, who are flabbergasted. "I've never seen so much enthusiasm," Torre says. "And I was at the World Series with the '69 Mets, the team of destiny and all that...
...batting averages almost as closely as they keep track of each other's age. Problems can arise when arguments over facts give way to differences of opinion. Caterino says, "I've learned never to argue about religion, politics or Ted Williams." Friendships have severed over whether Dom DiMaggio or Jimmy Piersall was the better centerfielder. In general the guiding principle reads: older is better. A favorite opening sentence of almost any discussion is "If Tom Yawkey was still alive...
...possible exception. His support of the city of his birth is well-known--he dedicated one of his books to three teachers from his public grammar school in Queens--and he has maintained a life-long passion for the home team, the New York Yankees. His passion for Joe DiMaggio and those who followed him in pinstripes has not cooled, despite the distinctly hostile surroundings he has lived in for 14 years. Gould has even been known to wear his Yankee cap to lectures, a move many regard as an outrageous provocation in this, the heart of Red Sox country...
...idea for a reunion was born three years ago when the town of Greenup, Ky., a few miles down the Ohio River, discovered that one of its native sons, Clinton Thomas, was known as "the Black Joe DiMaggio" when he played for the New York Black Yankees in the '30s. Greenup feted Thomas with an 80th birthday party and invited a group of old-timers from the black leagues. Twelve of them came, and before the party was over, they vowed to do it again the next year. With help from organizers in Ashland, the event doubled in size...
...American League leader in runs batted in is hitting .361. Since Lou Gehrig in 1934, no American Leaguer--not DiMaggio, Williams or Carew--has hit over .360 and won the RBI crown in the same year...