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...team in the Piedmont League, Martin's batting average of .349 for the 60 games he has played in this year has made him one of the five leading batsmen of the National League and its most spectacular rookie since Dizzy Dean. The other was Joseph Paul Di Maggio, 21-year-old outfielder of the New York Yankees, the American League's most sensational recruit since Ty Cobb...
...Yankees bought Outfielder Di Maggio from the San Francisco Seals for a reputed $75,000, not a record price but one high enough to justify him in displaying the utter lack of ability which expensive minor-league stars conventionally show in their major-league debuts. Any chance Di Maggio might have had to shine this season seemed even more thoroughly ruined by the attention he received in training camp, where sportswriters hailed him as the prize find of a decade. Far from achieving the collapse which his billing led sophisticated baseball addicts to expect, Rookie Di Maggio proceeded to make...
Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr. learned baseball on San Francisco's windy Funston playground, baseball kindergarten of big-league players like Oscar Vitt, Alvin Crowder, Umpire Babe Pinelli. One day the playground coach, Edward Hennessey, found him peering through a knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released...
...Principal topics of early baseball reports are, consequently, players recruited from minor-league teams. Few widely heralded rookies live up to advance promises. There is, however, no yardstick for their future importance except the amount of publicity they receive. Most publicized rookie of the current year is Joseph Di Maggio, 21, outfielder from the San Francisco Seals for whom the New York Yankees exchanged a reputed $75,000 and five players...
After performing sensationally in four pre-season exhibition games, Di Maggio hurt his ankle. When the ankle healed, he developed a sun-lamp burn. In New York last week, unaware of what the Yankee Stadium looked like inside, fragile Di Maggio, a toothy Italian whose remarks to the Press suggested that his ability, however great, was amply balanced by his self-assurance, spent his days reading how his teammates had contrived to lose three out of their first five games...