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- <title>
- 1940s: Joe DiMaggio
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
- PEOPLE
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- Joe DiMaggio
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- <body>
- <p>(October 4, 1948)
- </p>
- <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.
- </p>
- <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).
- </p>
- <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.
- </p>
- <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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- </body>
- </article>
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