MARCH 56 Joe DiMaggio and the Last
Magic Number In Sports by Kostya Kennedy
SEVENTY BASEBALL SEASONS ago, on May 15, 1941, at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a hard single to left fi eld in the fi rst inning. It would be his only hit of the game. No one paid it any notice; after all, the Yanks lost 13-1 to the White Sox. Who knew this would be the start of the most resonant baseball achievement of all time? Beginning that day, the vaunted Yankee centerfi elder kept on hitting—at least one hit in game after game after game.
In that spring of 1941, as the Nazi forces
of Hitler’s Germany moved inexorably across Europe, it was only a matter of time before American soldiers would be called to war, and the nation was apprehensive. Yet for two months in that tense summer, America was captivated by DiMaggio’s incredible 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 Oval Offi ce of FDR to the Upper West side apartment where Joe’s fi rst wife Dorothy, the movie starlet, was expecting a child. Joe DiMaggio comes alive—a driven ballplayer, a mercurial star and a confl icted husband—as the tension and the scrutiny build, day by day, hit by hit. DiMaggio’s achievement lives on as the greatest of sports records. Inside the story of DiMaggio’s quest, Kennedy examines the peculiar nature of hitting streaks and 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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PUB DATE: 3/8/2011 PRICE: $26.95 US/ $31.95 CAN FORMAT: Hardcover PAGES: 368 SIZE: 6” x 9” PHOTOS: 20 B & W ISBN 10: 1-60320-177-7 ISBN 13: 978-1-60320-177-3
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