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The Long Vigil
Jerome Charyn
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Charyn, Jerome.
Joe DiMaggio : the long vigil / Jerome Charyn.
p. cm. —(Icons of America)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-300-12328-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
1.
DiMaggio, Joe, 1914–1999. 2. Baseball players—United States—Biography. I. Title.
GV865. D5C53 2011
796. 357092—dc22
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ICONS OF AMERICA
Mark Crispin Miller,
It is as if DiMaggio expects her to understand, with of course never a word being said, that he has not arrived at his eminence in Toots Shor’s along with Hemingway and one or two select sports writers and gamblers because he is dumb or gifted or lucky but because he had an art that demanded huge concentration, and the consistent courage over the years to face into thousands of fast balls any of which could kill or cripple him if he were struck in the head.
