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...proposition that with only a shoestring budget, inferior equipment, no script and three of the most unattractive, foulmouthed performers imaginable, you too can make a movie that is every bit as rotten as anything ever dreamed up by the major studios on a bad day. THOMAS A. DIMAGGIO York...
DIED. JOE DIMAGGIO JR., 57, the reclusive and penurious only son of the baseball legend; apparently of natural causes; in Antioch, Calif. A sometime junkyard worker, he was estranged from Joe Sr. A cousin said, "He lived in the shadow of his father and could not rise above that...
...DiMaggio hits in 56 straight games...
...discrete events: what is actually taking place on the playing field and the translation of it into detailed and minute statistics. He wants his team to win, but he is also committed to the statistical triumph of the star he admires. The American sports hero is like Joe DiMaggio--a kind of Lone Ranger who walks in solitude beyond the reach of common experience, lifting us beyond ourselves...
...York Giants in the 1958 championship game, the one that turned out to be the NFL's coming-out party. Or you could cite the three MVP awards, the 10 Pro Bowl games, the unfathomable record of touchdown passes in 47 straight games (people come closer to Joe DiMaggio's streak than to this one: next best after Unitas is Dan Marino, with 30). But Unitas' influence--vast and beyond challenge--is this: he was the first modern quarterback in a sport that the quarterbacks have owned ever since...