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...Sundays, and that the front cover would be better given to the Royal Family (not economic Royalists) or something similar. After the lovely photo of Jean Harlow some months ago and the nude in the Art Department (of all places) a few weeks ago, and now this of Di Maggio, I feel I must tell you that at the end of my subscription in June 1938 I will renew for only one year, instead...
...interested to learn that Joe Di Maggio hit two homeruns in one inning "for a total of eight bases." . . . Why not add that he hit these homeruns with his bat, while standing at home plate. It would also be interesting to know (if you have the data) how many times Di Maggio, or any other baseballer, has hit two homeruns for a total of seven bases-or nine...
...League baseballers: the annual All-Star game against the American League, 4-to-3; in Boston. Hero of the game was Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, who faced only nine batters in three innings, gave no hits; "goat" was famed Outfielder Joseph Paul Di Maggio of the New York Yankees, who fumbled one ball, missed another, batted five times without getting...
...middle of the 1934 season. Di Maggio twisted some tendons in his knee getting out of a taxi. The Yankees let their option run last year, partly to give him more seasoning but more to make absolutely sure that he was not a physical wreck. There was one more anxious moment when it looked as if Colonel Ruppert might have bought a $75,000 goldbrick. That came in the training season last spring when Di Maggio first bruised an ankle and then, while treating the injury, managed to get his foot burned by a sun lamp. He made his debut...
...family which Di Maggio used to help support by selling newspapers after school now, because he sends home almost his whole salary from the Yankees, lives in considerably more comfort. They own a three-family house above San Francisco's fishing wharfs. Blackhaired Maria Di Maggio, who gave her favorite brother a signet ring when he left home, keeps scrapbooks which are extensive because San Francisco sportswriters play up Di Maggio for the city's 60,000 Italians. There are three other sisters and four brothers of whom the oldest, Tom, like greying Joseph Di Maggio...