Word: dimaggio
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...manager of Spokane's successful Expo '74. Spurney is considering a variety of cost-cutting and money-raising stratagems (the train now costs $20,000 per display day). But he also might well think about more stops at unjaded towns like Archbold, where a look at Joe DiMaggio's baseball bat and rocks from the moon is apparently still worth two dollars from the kitchen sugar bowl...
...good-natured Bronx cheers echoed in the night. After the game, won by the National League, 6-3, Kissinger went down into the dressing rooms, munched some salami and recalled that when he was growing up in New York City his team had been the Yankees. "Joe DiMaggio was my favorite player," he said, "and I always admired Tommy Henrich, the way he hit in the clutch...
...awakened in them the purest essence of their love for Boston and baseball, he has transported them back to a Land of Oz. And as usual, this nirvana is an anachronistic place. Bars rustle wwth talk of Freddy Lynn--who is he like. Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio? The comparison is borne of the old debate between those two heros, in the Golden Age of modern Boston baseball, when the Yankees were regarded with about as much affection as the National Socialist Party in Germany a few years before. Lynn might have been compared to Willie Mays the same early...
...depended on half a century of winning, even if that seemed gone forever for a while. The Boston fans were angry with the smugness of the Yankee equanimity--one I knew, transplanted to the heartland of the enemy, used to say fiercely that Dom had been the only real DiMaggio. Joe could hit a little better, he conceded grimly, but Dom had him beat by miles in the field...
Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, Marshall, Hemingway, Faulkner, Picasso, MacArthur, DiMaggio, Joe Louis, all seemed to have been around forever and to have a limitless future. There was no room for small figures in the pantheon. An entire generation retreated into a posture of silence, pursuing their desires down a bland alley. Pop culture-film, comics, records and below all, TV-became the national pacifier...