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Tag Archives: Joe DiMaggio
OF ALL-STAR GAMES, STREAKS AND PURSUITS… “The best of times, the worst of times.” Charles Dickens
The All-Star break is here; a time held baseball tradition that dates back to 1933. For 89 times baseball has paused to celebrate its best players from each league in a one game contest with the prize being simply pride. … Continue reading
The Anatomy of a Rivalry, the Fifth Stanza, The Kid, The Clipper and 1941….REVISITED
Despite what you may have heard or read about in curse ridden terms, the Red Sox Yankee rivalry actually began as a rivalry between their two best players; a guy named Ted Williams and another named Joe DiMaggio. It began … Continue reading
The Anatomy of a Rivalry, the Fourth Stanza, Back from the Darkness of the Abyss…..REVISITED
The Red Sox/Yankee rivalry really began as the rivalry between Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. For in the first 20 years of the American League the Yankees were pretty bad and the Red Sox were the best team in baseball. … Continue reading
Billy, Lee and Me…..
This is Billy….. This is Lee…. And this is me….. Billy was born in San Diego California in 1945, Lee was born in Albany, New York in 1944 and I was born in Boston in 1953. Our lives would intersect … Continue reading
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Tagged Bellflower High School, Bill Mazeroski, Bill Skowron, Billy Rohr, Boston Red Sox, Carl Yastrzemski, Don Larsen, Jackson Square, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Ted Williams, The Impossible Dream, Tom Tresh, Tracy Stallard, Weymouth Massachusetts, Yogi Berra
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“It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.” …..Tris Speaker
Seventy one years ago yesterday Cleveland Indians third baseman Ken Keltner twice dove to his right and made both plays, robbing Joe DiMaggio of two base hits. It halted history and ended the Yankee Clipper’s record-breaking hitting streak at 56 games. Joe DiMaggio had 91 … Continue reading
Hey now you’re an All Star, get your game on, go play……
Today the 2012 All Star break comes to an end as the Red Sox are right up the road from me in Tampa to begin the second half of Fenway Park’s 100th anniversary season. The “Trop”. As they begin the … Continue reading
The Anatomy of a Rivalry, The Seventh Stanza, 1950 and 51……
The story of the 1950 and 1951 Red Sox is part of my aforementioned “Litany of Futility” visa vie the Red Sox/Yankee rivalry. It would prove to provide the closing act on this version of the passion play which would take … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Lemon, Bobby Doerr, Bucky Dent, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, Dennis Eckersley, Early Wynn, Fenway Park, Joe DiMaggio, Mel Parnell, Mickey Mantle, Red Sox, Red Sox/Yankee Rivalry, Reggie Jackson, Roger Maris, Ron Guidry, Ted Williams, Thurmon Munson, Vern Stephens, Walt Dropo, Willard Nixon
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“And on the seventh day He rested”…..Genesis
And Joe DiMaggio and his buddy played golf….. And, so did Johnny Lindell and his buddy, And so did I…..Happy Sunday!
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Tagged Fenway Park, Golf, Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Lindell, Red Sox
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The Anatomy of a Rivalry, the Fifth Stanza, The Kid, The Clipper and 1941…..
It has often been said that 1941 was the last year of innocence. The war in Europe was raging, the debate in America about whether we should enter it or not, was raging. And the debate in the baseball world, … Continue reading
The Anatomy of a Rivalry, the Fourth Stanza, Back from the Darkness of the Abyss…..
Tom Yawkey purchased the Red Sox in 1933, the year before Babe Ruth’s final year with the Yankees. There is a synchronicity in this ushering out of the old and in with the new; for it was Tom Yawkey who set the Red … Continue reading
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