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...opening day, the big-name veterans looked as good as they had been touted. The Indians' Bobby Feller and the Yankees' Spud Chandler pitched shutouts. The Tigers' Hank Greenberg and the Yankees' Joe Di Maggio hit home runs. The Red Sox's Ted Williams smacked the longest ball (440 ft.) seen in Washington's Griffith Stadium in 15 years...
...ball games is traditionally confined to austere announcements of time, place and contestants. Up came the Yankees with ads in the best soap-opera style. Sample: "Can Washington's famous 'knucklebal' pitchers stop what experts call the sluggingest team in the League? Or will Di Maggio, Keller & Co. make mincemeat of the Senators' pitching staff? Come out to the ball game...
...Yanks Are Coming. The American League was full of old familiar faces-and the rookies hardly had a chance. The Yankees had veterans in every spot but one-pitching. The new Joe Di Maggio (TIME, April 8) had his old home-run habit; Charlie ("Muscle Man") Keller was still denting the fences; and underrated Tommy Henrich was still hitting well...
...good proof that Di Maggio had hot lost any power since he played in the '42 World Series was one terrible wallop he took at a ball in a Panama exhibition game-it landed 476 feet, 10 inches from homeplate and rolled another 101 feet. Pitchers, usually far ahead of batters in the spring, were throwing him outside balls. When they did, 31-year-old Di Mag practiced hitting to right field (the right field home run fence at Yankee Stadium, once Babe Ruth's pet target, is the closest). His 30-game R.B.I, total...
...having a fielder's glove custom-made for Joe Di Maggio III, aged 4^. Said he: "It's an exact copy of mine, but small. It will cost as much as mine but that's all right [since he makes a $43,500-a-year salary, Di Mag could well afford it]. Most kids have skimpy little gloves and I don't want him to have to use one of those." Di Mag even knows the time the train gets him into Manhattan's Penn Station from Baltimore, spring's last exhibition stop. Says...