Word: dimaggios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Changing pace, the Sahara in Las Vegas was offering a "family show" (no nudes; Dan Dailey), and the first family of onetime Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio turned up for the occasion. Look-alike...
With his long, righthanded swing, Rocky Colavito is the power man behind the Indians, a long-ball hitter in the tradition of Ruth and Foxx and DiMaggio, a player who can hold the crowd enthralled because every time he goes to bat he sets the scene for baseball's most dramatic moment: the home...
...star for the semipro Mohawks playing out of Crotona Park, and major-league scouts were nosing about. Rocky quit high school ("baseball was the only thing I really cared about") and waited to be courted. Yankee Stadium was just a couple of miles away, and Colavito idolized Joe DiMaggio. But the Yankee scouts fretted so long about his slow running (he has inverted arches) that Cleveland got him for a cut-rate $3,000 bonus...
...Manager Sisler got things into focus: he hit .345, made TIME and the St. Louis Browns look good (though he was well below his best season: .420 in 1922). Since then, TIME has run up a good country batting average raising timely monuments for baseball's heroes. Joe DiMaggio was on the cover at the start of his major-league career; Cleveland's Bob Feller had almost all his fireballing years in front of him. Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle-and many others - were all caught when they were going good...
This is not the first time the baseball writers have had their revenge on Williams. In 1941, in the season he hit a cool .406, he lost to Joe Gordon by 26 points. In 1947, he lost by one point to DiMaggio, because one Boston sports-writer refused to give him even a tenth place vote. In the recent election, Williams received one ninth and another tenth place vote...