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Married. Dominic ("The Little Professor") DiMaggio, 30, Boston Red Sox centerfielder, youngest of the hard-hitting DiMaggio brothers (Vince, Joe and Dom); and Emily Alberta Frederick, 25, pretty brunette; in Wellesley, Mass...
...better than his brother Joe-Dom-in-ic DiMaggio...
...with the U.S. at war, DiMaggio made up his mind to join up. He was 28 and married, and his draft board had classified him in 3-A. He went in voluntarily, became Private J. DiMaggio, U.S. Army Air Forces. In the Air Forces, he put in three years' service in the physical training program for flight cadets. He rose to staff sergeant. Joe had one hitch in Hawaii during 1944; otherwise he was not overseas. He had a chance to play in a couple of exhibition games, entertaining troops, but that was all the baseball...
Matter of Dates. After that season, everything DiMaggio did seemed to make headlines. His wedding to Dorothy Arnold Olson in 1939 (later ended in divorce) was easily the biggest public wedding ever seen in San Francisco. Fans climbed trees and stood on rooftops to catch a glimpse of the couple leaving the church. Joe made more news as baseball's balkiest holdout. Then, too, he seemed to suffer more than his share of injuries; fans were forever reading accounts of sore arms and pulled ligaments...
...couldn't sleep at night," says DiMaggio. "I'd wake up with boos ringing in my ears. I'd get up, light a cigarette and walk the floor sometimes till dawn." Nevertheless, he bore down and had a big year: 32 homers, 140 runs batted in, a batting average...