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Kahn's idea is a simple one: although baseball is a game, not everyone plays it the same way. Of course, baseball is Jackie Robinson stealing home in a thunder of lethal spikes and cheery abandon, it is Joe DiMaggio gliding around second base without ever losing his cap, it is Willie Mays soaring through center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards...
...baseball writing concentrated on such issues. Was the manager a sour drunk? Was the superslugger a tightwad? No matter. Write only about the games. Emotion, indeed humanity, was irrelevant. You can read a season of sports pages from 1951 without learning anything of the interplay between the fading patriarch (DiMaggio) and the bucolic Wunderkind (Mantle...
...quaff a bottle of brandy a night at the 54-ft. circular bar of his original Manhattan bistro. "Drinkin', that's my way of prayin'," he would say. Shor was a star-struck sports fan, and his friends ranged from the Duke of Windsor to Joe DiMaggio, from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Mobster Frank Costello. Generous and impulsive, he once dropped more than $60,000 on a World Series bet, and would carry down-and-out customers on the cuff for months on end. Master of the boorish putdown, he called his famous customers "creeps...
...would propose to make it three in a row. Last week Banks, 45, enjoyed his most beautiful day yet. He was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, only the eighth player to be named in his first year of eligibility (five years after retirement). Even Joe DiMaggio did not make it until his third year on the ballot, and Yogi Berra until his second. Grinned "Mr. Cub": "It's the greatest moment of my life...
...series of loners down a series of mean streets-an echo of postwar confusion and anxiety. A comic and ultimately sorrowful section is devoted to Marilyn Monroe, following her from screen tests to her last incomplete film, tracing her biography in rare shots with Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio. There is also a haunting, overproduced birthday party for John F. Kennedy, where the tardy star is introduced as "the late Marilyn Monroe." Marilyn was the waif Shirley Temple pretended to be-except that her desperation, as L.G.T.T.M. shows, was all too real. That kind of realism is also shown...