A biography analyzing the life, career, and mythology surrounding one of baseball's most legendary stars.
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Dimaggio's Life and Career
Introduction
Origins, 1914-1932
With the Seals, 1933-1935
The Promise Fulfilled, 1936
Triumphs and Tribulations, 1937-1938
The Best Player in Baseball, 1939-1940
We Want Him on Our Side, 1941-1942
Out at Home, 1943-1945
Coming Back, 1946-1947
"His Bat Spells Bingo," 1948-1949
End of the Line, 1950-1951
Marilyn, 1952-1962
Legacies, 1962-1999
DiMaggio: Image, Perception, and the Literature
Appendix: Joe DiMaggio's Career and World Series Statistics
Bibliography
Index
David Jones is Library Specialist at Sage College and the author of numerous articles in official Major League Baseball publications.
?[T]he perfect length for those "read a biography of these many
pages" projects that teachers perennially assign. It would also
serve any researcher well as a starting point for a
project....Librarians should consider purchasing titles in this
series to beef up their biography collections in anticipation of
those annual assignments.?-VOYA
?A complex view of an American baseball legend. Twelve chapters,
each headed by a quote to set the tone, chronologically discuss
DiMaggio's professional career and personal life from his roots as
a son of Sicilian immigrants and one of nine children to his death
in 1999. Jones describes the highs and lows of the "Yankee
Clipper's" life and the people who influenced him in positive and
negative ways....Supportive documentation presented in an honest
manner gives readers a fair representation of the subject.?-School
Library Journal
"ÝT¨he perfect length for those "read a biography of these many
pages" projects that teachers perennially assign. It would also
serve any researcher well as a starting point for a
project....Librarians should consider purchasing titles in this
series to beef up their biography collections in anticipation of
those annual assignments."-VOYA
"[T]he perfect length for those "read a biography of these many
pages" projects that teachers perennially assign. It would also
serve any researcher well as a starting point for a
project....Librarians should consider purchasing titles in this
series to beef up their biography collections in anticipation of
those annual assignments."-VOYA
"A complex view of an American baseball legend. Twelve chapters,
each headed by a quote to set the tone, chronologically discuss
DiMaggio's professional career and personal life from his roots as
a son of Sicilian immigrants and one of nine children to his death
in 1999. Jones describes the highs and lows of the "Yankee
Clipper's" life and the people who influenced him in positive and
negative ways....Supportive documentation presented in an honest
manner gives readers a fair representation of the subject."-School
Library Journal
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