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...with Quaker Oats to sell Gatorade. "Michael is truly in the league of legends. Whether he is playing or retired, he is still going to be a tremendous draw," says Nancy Young, a director of corporate affairs for Sara Lee. If Joe Namath can still push stereos and Joe DiMaggio sell insurance, then surely Jordan will be endorsing Gatorade when he's a grandfather...
...with six toes?") are frequently ludicrous, especially when sung to Laderman's plodding, semitonal noodlings. And the decision to make Monroe the only real character, surrounded by bloodless composites like the Psychiatrist, the Senator and Rick, an ex- husband, forecloses any dramatic tension. (Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?) Marilyn's life was larger than life, but her opera is as stupefying as her film debut, Scudda-Hoo! Scudda...
...always get a special kick on Opening Day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. Joe DiMaggio...
...marvel, a natural, who hits .444 that first season. A couple of years later, as Barr leads the New York Mets to a championship, sportswriters tell themselves that he isn't a better ballplayer than Gehrig, or Mays, or Williams. He couldn't be, could he? Better than DiMaggio? But his teammates know he is. They just don't know why. More than most athletic wonders, baseball skill is hidden, supernatural; just flick your wrists and it's a triple to left...
...season poignantly reminded baseball fans of a painful truth. Unlike pro basketball, Major League Baseball today has no one who holds the national appeal in the way that Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley do--or, for that matter, in the way that Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and numerous others once...