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Jerome Charyn

The Great DiMaggio, continued

April 21, 2011 · 1 comment

Apropos of the review I posted the other day of Jerome Charyn’s new biography Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil, I wanted to point out that the book has a web presence of its own. Should be interesting to peruse; some are baseball sites, some are not.

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Bookshelf review: Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil

April 18, 2011 · 3 comments

by Jerome Charyn. Yale University Press, 2011. * * * This year marks the 70th anniversary of one of those sports records still considered to be unbreakable: Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. While most of the books over the years — especially those written in a long-ago time, when athletes were always heroic rather than […]

Tagged as: Jerome Charyn, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams

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