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...sights of baseball is watching DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without a backward look glide to the spot where the ball is coming down, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. Like all champions, he makes it look too easy. "It's just getting the jump on the ball...
...result, he has hung on to only about a fifth of the $500,000 he has earned from baseball. (This year he will make about $67,000.) He owns a few blue chip stocks, a small annuity, and until recently a part interest with two of his brothers in DiMaggio's Famous Restaurant, a seafood place on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf...
...Papa DiMaggio, who ran a fishing boat from the wharf at the foot of Taylor Street, believed that his five sons should be fishermen too. All the boys-Tom, Michael, Vince, Joe and Dominic-worked on the boat at one time or another, but most of the time they preferred to play baseball. "Baseball, what is that?" Papa DiMaggio used to shout. "A bum's game! A no good game! Whoever makes a living at baseball...
...Vince play, when a Seals' scout, Spike Hennessey, clapped him on the back. How would he like to come inside for a tryout? Joe could think of nothing he wanted more. Five years later, little brother Dom was given his chance too, on the strength of being a DiMaggio...
Within the DiMaggio family circle, relative batting averages are a cause of pride, but bear no relationship to the affection the members feel for each other. Bespectacled Dom is the family pet. "Oh, you ought to see him run the bases," his sister Marie says. "He's like a little rabbit." The entire family, including Joe, has been extremely pleased by the couplet that Red Sox fans have been chanting this year to the tune of Maryland, My Maryland...