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Joe Dimaggio And The Last Magic Number In Sports
Sports Illustrated
March 2011
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Featuring: Joe DiMaggio
368 pages
ISBN: 1603201777
EAN: 9781603201773
Hardcover
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Seventy baseball seasons ago, on a May afternoon at Yankee
Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a hard single to leftfield. It
was the quiet beginning to the most resonant baseball
achievement of all time. Starting that day, the vaunted
Yankee centerfielder kept on hitting-at least one hit in
game after game after game. In the summer of 1941, as
Nazi forces moved relentlessly across Europe and young
American men were drafted by the millions, it seemed only a
matter of time before the U.S. went to war. The nation was
apprehensive. Yet for two months in that tense summer,
America was captivated by DiMaggio's astonishing hitting
streak. In 56, Kostya Kennedy tells the remarkable story of
how the streak found its way into countless lives, from the
Italian kitchens of Newark to the playgrounds of Queens to
the San Francisco streets of North Beach; from the Oval
Office of FDR to the Upper West Side apartment where Joe's
first wife, Dorothy, the movie starlet, was expecting a
child. In this crisp, evocative narrative Joe DiMaggio
emerges in a previously unseen light, a 26-year-old on the
cusp of becoming an icon. He comes alive-a driven
ballplayer, a mercurial star and a conflicted husband-as the
tension and the scrutiny upon him build with each passing
day. DiMaggio's achievement lives on as the greatest
of sports records. Alongside the story of DiMaggio's
dramatic quest, Kennedy deftly examines the peculiar nature
of hitting streaks and with an incisive, modern-day
perspective gets inside the number itself, as its sheer
improbability heightens both the math and the magic of 56
games in a row.
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