DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight
Tom Heffron [Jacket Design] St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing Company, 2003. First Edition. xiv, 418 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Slight weakness at front board. Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger. Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. DiMaggio was a three-time MVP winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955, and was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken during the baseball centennial year of 1969. His brothers Vince (1912–1986) and Dom (1917–2009) also were major league center fielders. Morris Engleberg was Joe DiMaggio's longtime friend, attorney, and business manager. He provides a rare glimpse into DiMaggio's relationship with his estranged son, and reveals DiMaggio's feelings about Marilyn Monroe, the Kennedys, politics, and fellow ballplayers (including Mickey Mantle and Lou Gehrig). Widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Joe DiMaggio transcended sports and was a true American icon. Beyond his public life in a New York Yankee uniform and his glamorous if brief marriage to Marilyn Monroe, DiMaggio was an intensely private individual who rarely, if ever, revealed himself to biographers attempting to tell his life story. Until now, Morris Engelberg, DiMaggio's closest friend and confidante over the last 16 years of his life, had rare access and insight to the man behind the legend. Teamed up with longtime AP journalist Marv Schneider, Engelberg corrects inaccuracies in recent biographies of DiMaggio and reveals the true, inside story of the great "Joltin' Joe." Condition: good, very good.
Keywords: Joe DiMaggio, Baseball, Marilyn Monroe, New York Yankees, Children's Hospital, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, MLB, Barry Halper, Joe Nachio, World Series, Yankee Clipper
ISBN: 0760314829
[Book #52683]
Price: $37.50