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(1940s) Joe DiMaggio
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Joe DiMaggio
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<p>(October 4, 1948)
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<p> 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.
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<p> 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).
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<p> 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.
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<p> 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."</p>
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