Word: dimaggios
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...George Steinbrenner, who dabbles in politics now and then but over all is not much more of a louse than most owners of the Yankees have been, has brought a lot of very fine players to the team. None of them looks like Joe DiMaggio or Ryne Duren but they are, nevertheless, superb players and they won 97 games for the team during the course of the season. A satisfying year...
...lead-off hitter who got on base, thereby enabling Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to run up their imposing RBI records. A broken collarbone in 1935 ended his playing career, but he came back to coach his replacement, a new kid from the San Francisco Seals, Joe DiMaggio...
...priestly duties. Words like "ritual," "legend" and "myth" labor in overtime. "Grace" takes on a double meaning. Old George Blanda is compared to Ulysses as he copes on "the green oval floor of the amphitheater" otherwise known as a football field. The "unforgettable stance and fluid swing" of Joe DiMaggio cannot be celebrated without cosmic theorizing. "Baseball is as close a liturgical enactment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant myth as the nation has," Novak writes. "It is to games what the Federalist Papers are to books...
...sequence of events began to unfold at an appropriate venue, DiMaggio's restaurant (Joe and Dom own small interests) on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, where Dick O'Connell, the general manager of the Boston Red Sox, got a message to telephone Charlie Finley, the exasperated (and exasperating) owner of the Oakland Athletics. For days Finley had been trying to trade or sell seven premier players of the A's who had refused to sign contracts; now he hoped to arrange a package deal that O'Connell could not decline. The spring trading deadline...
...puts one far above the action, an appropriate distance in a shrine, perhaps, but one that allows even Yankee partisans to concentrate exclusively on the fights in the stands and not on their team batting below. But one can't help feeling that they would have watched Ruth or Dimaggio or Mantle take their swings in the circumstances...