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Joe DiMaggio
(October 4, 1948)
In a year like 1948, a handful of indispensable "old pros"
stand out like Gullivers among the Lilliputians. Each of the top
teams in the American League race has one.
With the New York Yankees, it is Joe DiMaggio. He had only
missed one game all season, and he was leading the big parade
in baseball's most spectacular departments: home runs (39) and
runs batted in (153).
At 33, Joe DiMaggio has black hair, beginning to be flecked
with grey. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and solid (198 lbs.) in the smart
double breasted suits he wears off the playing field, he might
be mistaken for a man with an office in midtown Manhattan. The
tipoff that he is an athlete is his walk. It has a flowing,
catlike quality, without waste motion.
Unlike his perennial Red Sox rival, Ted Williams, who does
pushups every morning to strengthen his wrists and forearm
muscles, DiMag frowns on off-the-field exercise, likes to loll
in bed until 10 a.m. or later. He is also fond of his food: "I
don't diet. I believe in three square meals a day and I'm not
ashamed to say I'm nuts about spaghetti."