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With his long, righthanded swing, Rocky Colavito is the power man behind the Indians, a long-ball hitter in the tradition of Ruth and Foxx and DiMaggio, a player who can hold the crowd enthralled because every time he goes to bat he sets the scene for baseball's most dramatic moment: the home...
...star for the semipro Mohawks playing out of Crotona Park, and major-league scouts were nosing about. Rocky quit high school ("baseball was the only thing I really cared about") and waited to be courted. Yankee Stadium was just a couple of miles away, and Colavito idolized Joe DiMaggio. But the Yankee scouts fretted so long about his slow running (he has inverted arches) that Cleveland got him for a cut-rate $3,000 bonus...
...Manager Sisler got things into focus: he hit .345, made TIME and the St. Louis Browns look good (though he was well below his best season: .420 in 1922). Since then, TIME has run up a good country batting average raising timely monuments for baseball's heroes. Joe DiMaggio was on the cover at the start of his major-league career; Cleveland's Bob Feller had almost all his fireballing years in front of him. Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle-and many others - were all caught when they were going good...
This is not the first time the baseball writers have had their revenge on Williams. In 1941, in the season he hit a cool .406, he lost to Joe Gordon by 26 points. In 1947, he lost by one point to DiMaggio, because one Boston sports-writer refused to give him even a tenth place vote. In the recent election, Williams received one ninth and another tenth place vote...
...star whose affair with a white actress was a bannered smirk in Confidential last year discovered that the story developed from snapshots of the couple that were filched by an acquaintance. The private files of detectives have been rifled for stories such as Confidential's account of Joe DiMaggio's famed "wrong-door" raid on Marilyn Monroe. Newspaper and magazine morgues also have been raided by scandalmag agents. To backstop his bedroom exclusives. Harrison retained a squad of private eyes with such electronic sleuths as a fast, small, noiseless camera, wrist-attached microphones that can pick...