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Only 361 home runs? Forget about his ability to hit for average as well as power. Forget that at DiMaggio's retirement, only four men had ever hit as many home runs. Focus instead on those three large numerals inscribed on the left-center-field wall in Yankee Stadium when DiMaggio played there--4 5 7--denoting the preposterous footage from home plate to the seats. For a right-handed power hitter, it marked the outer limits of a place where potential homers went to die. No right-handed Yankee hit nearly as many home runs as DiMaggio until...
...arrive where a ball was about to land. My own experience was confined to a single game, the first I ever saw, when DiMaggio, suffering from a bone spur, was on his last legs. The mother of a boy in our neighborhood took a bunch of us to the Stadium. DiMaggio hit a drive into the upper deck in right. "You'll never forget that," said my friend's mother...
...DiMaggio Highway, and Governor George Pataki resisted that in favor of a freeway in the Bronx. The agendas reflected in the argument were theirs, of course, rather than DiMaggio's; Pataki wants the Bronx Bombers to stay where they are, and Giuliani would like to see Yankee Stadium on the West Side of Manhattan, next to what used to be poor Julius Miller's elevated highway...
...uninitiated, Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb. is the site of the College World Series, and if Harvard wants to book its tickets early, it can start on the bump...
...Although Melo no longer plays the game, his passion for it remains undiminished. He gushes about his son's talents, and serves customers in a World Cup shirt. He even attended a few matches of the 1994 tournament at Foxboro Stadium...