Word: dimaggio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...South Africa, Eric Rowan is as heroic a figure as Joe DiMaggio or Babe Ruth is in the U.S. Playing cricket against England last summer, Rowan, vice captain of his team and opening batsman, scored 236 runs, highest individual score any South African player ever made in a test match. But later, at Old Trafford, the Manchester cricket ground, Rowan made a different kind of sensation. When the crowd decided, he was "stonewalling" (i.e., batting a wholly defensive game), it gave him cricket's equivalent of a Bronx cheer-slow, rhythmic handclaps. Infuriated, Rowan sat down on the "pitch...
...DiMaggio stepped from the plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, a full-throated roar rose from the waiting crowd. "Banzai DiMaggio," they shouted. Joe and 16 other players-the first U.S. all-star major league team to visit Japan since 1934-had come to make a good-will tour of Japan, in which they will play 15 games of beisu-boru against Japan's best teams...
...Star" baseball team (including Joe DiMaggio, who hit a single and drew a walk in three times at bat), an exhibition game over the Yomiuri Giants, 7-0, in Tokyo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Giants never gave up, pushed across two runs in the ninth, had the tying run on second. But with no DiMaggio to give them the scoring punch, the Giants could not quite make it. Rightfielder Bauer, with a skidding, diving catch, came up with the ball for the final...
After the game, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel gave Joe a heartfelt slap on the back. "Without you," said Casey, "we couldn't have done it." But last week, packing in preparation for a barnstorming trip to Korea, DiMaggio said the words that Stengel and his teammates hated to hear: "I've made up my mind to retire...