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...Bjorn Borg, the tennis champion. At 23, Stenmark has won the World Cup three times. Before Lake Placid, he had taken 14 World Cup giant slalom races in a row while competing against the best racers in the world-a record as awesome in its own way as Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941. In some ways, Stenmark is the Alpine equivalent of DiMaggio. He has the same gift for doing the impossible in an unhurried, almost languid, offhandedly elegant manner. Declares Austria's Coach Karl Kahr: "He has that special feeling. Certainly, training...
...DiMaggio remembers these legions lovingly as they gave him one of the most frenzied ovations in all of sports. The last day of the 1948 season. To force a playoff, the Sox had to beat the Yankees, and Detroit had to beat Cleveland. Thirty years before 1978--the same situation, the Sox and the Yankees, with the former hoping to draw even, walking the edge...
...DiMaggio): "I had charley horses in both legs and the one in my right leg hurt like fury...They beat us, 10-5...I turned and started for the dugout. I guess I was limping pretty badly. "I'll never forget that crowd. It was standing and roaring--like one man...There were more than 30,000 people giving an ovation to a guy who tried to beat them...
...wearing number three when the Yanks decided to retire it, and was the last man to wear number seven before Mantle. This same man was the first to be a defensive replacement for Joe DiMaggio. Who is this star-crossed Yank...
...What type of cigarettes did Joe DiMaggio endorse during his playing career...