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...pills, the women, the hard life has gotten to Boston Joey and he just cannot play like he used to. Joe Dimaggio, the pool hustler from New Jersey, was talking about him the other day- "I seem him in Indianapolis and he couldn't make a ball. It's a shame cause he used to be one hell of a pool player...
...play ball for all the nice folks in the stands, and, if they have the time, are also lay preachers for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. It's a wonderful world, baseball, full of unspoiled heroes and magnanimous owners and a pantheon of Gods whose names are Ruth and DiMaggio, Cobb and Williams, Musial and Wagner. Jim Bouton, like most American boys, believed so much in the dream that he wanted to be a "big leaguer." Ball Four is the story of his experience with one American myth...
...sports, Italian-Americans stand out. The late Rocky Marciano, undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, and a native of Brockton, comes to mind. Any fan of auto racing has head of Andy Granitelli, the STP man. Vince Lombardi is probably the world's best known football coach, Joe DiMaggio was recently voted the Greatest Living Baseball Player. When one thinks of the Boston Red Sox, he thinks of Tony Conigliaro, Rico Petrocelli and Frank Malzone. Look at a Patriot's Yearbook: Babe Parilli, Nick Buoniconti, Gino Capaletti...
...qualities for which we bitterly castigated L.B.J." By midsummer, with the convention approaching and Robert Kennedy dead, "McCarthy regressed to his balanced presentation of self, to the sacred ceremony of his personality." Gloomily, Larner thought of Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson: "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes...
...notion that a TIME SPORT cover is a jinx dates back to the 1930s-possibly to the day in 1936 when a spectacular rookie named Joe DiMaggio went 0 for 5 at the plate and flubbed two easy chances in the field just as his portrait appeared on TIME'S cover. Long-memoried readers sometimes remind us that Leo Durocher's year-long banishment from baseball started with his cover in April 1947, that Golfer Ben Hogan lost the Los Angeles Open the week of his cover in 1949 and that undefeated Navy was stunningly upset by S.M.U...