Word: dimaggio
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...fans, lazily sunning themselves in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week, it was just another exhibition game. To New York Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, artfully juggling 16 players into the lineup, it was another chance to solve his three most pressing problems: 1) a man to replace retired Centerfielder Joe DiMaggio; 2) an infielder to fill the gap when Second Baseman Gerry Coleman goes back to Marine flying duty; 3) another starting pitcher to rotate with his three proven performers, Vic Raschi (21-10), Ed Lopat (21-9), and Allie Reynolds...
Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, and Bill Dickey were unanimously voted to the all-time New York Yankee team yesterday by 48 New York writers who were covering baseball back in 1930. The 1927 club that won the American League pennant by 19 games and annihilated Pittsburgh in four straight World Series games, was named the best Yankee team by a lopsided margin with 45 votes...
...DiMaggio, still the "Yankee Clipper" at 37, but no longer a terror at the plate (last year's batting average, his worst: .263), finally called it quits after 16 years with the Yankees. Said Centerfielder DiMaggio, who retires with a lifetime average of .325: "When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game. And so, I've played my last game of ball."-Joe's new job: before-&-after-game telecaster for the Yankees (at an estimated $50,000 a year...
...Dimaggio, the last of the great Yankees, announced his retirement from baseball yesterday...
...Dimaggio said at the Yankee office that he never would don a baseball uniform again. He said he never had entertained managerial or coaching ambitions, and probably would accept a job with the Yankee organization as a television broadcaster...