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The DiMaggios : Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream, Tom Clavin, (electronic resource)

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The untold Great American Story of three brothers?Joltin' Joe, Dom, and Vince DiMaggio?and the Great American Game, baseball, that would consume their livesMore than 350 sets of brothers have played in the major leagues since the 1870s. But few have had the skill, the charisma, or the success of the DiMaggio brothers. Joe DiMaggio, "The Yankee Clipper," is an American icon and one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. Even his chief rival, Ted Williams, called him the greatest all-around player he ever saw.But two of Joe's brothers, also center fielders, were dynamic players in their own right. Dominic, affectionately known as "The Little Professor," was a seven-time All-Star who played for the Boston Red Sox from 1940 through 1953. He hit better than .300 five times in his career, finished with a .298 average, and like his big brother, rarely struck out. And Vince DiMaggio, the eldest, made two All-Star teams and in 1941 smacked 21 home runs and drove in 100 RBIs while playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates.In The DiMaggios, journalist Tom Clavin draws on a wealth of source materials, interviews with family members and teammates, and in-depth reporting to reveal how three kids from an immigrant family of eleven found their way to the upper echelons of American sports and popular culture. A vivid portrait of a family and the ways in which their shifting fortunes and status shaped their relationships, it is also a transporting exploration of an era and a culture, using baseball as a lens to view and understand American society in the twentieth century
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The DiMaggios : Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream
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The DiMaggios
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Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream
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Tom Clavin
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The untold Great American Story of three brothers?Joltin' Joe, Dom, and Vince DiMaggio?and the Great American Game, baseball, that would consume their livesMore than 350 sets of brothers have played in the major leagues since the 1870s. But few have had the skill, the charisma, or the success of the DiMaggio brothers. Joe DiMaggio, "The Yankee Clipper," is an American icon and one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. Even his chief rival, Ted Williams, called him the greatest all-around player he ever saw.But two of Joe's brothers, also center fielders, were dynamic players in their own right. Dominic, affectionately known as "The Little Professor," was a seven-time All-Star who played for the Boston Red Sox from 1940 through 1953. He hit better than .300 five times in his career, finished with a .298 average, and like his big brother, rarely struck out. And Vince DiMaggio, the eldest, made two All-Star teams and in 1941 smacked 21 home runs and drove in 100 RBIs while playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates.In The DiMaggios, journalist Tom Clavin draws on a wealth of source materials, interviews with family members and teammates, and in-depth reporting to reveal how three kids from an immigrant family of eleven found their way to the upper echelons of American sports and popular culture. A vivid portrait of a family and the ways in which their shifting fortunes and status shaped their relationships, it is also a transporting exploration of an era and a culture, using baseball as a lens to view and understand American society in the twentieth century
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  • DiMaggio, Dom
  • DiMaggio, Vince
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The DiMaggios : Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream, Tom Clavin, (electronic resource)
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  • 336 p.
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The DiMaggios : Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream, Tom Clavin, (electronic resource)
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Publication
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Electronic book
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unknown
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  • 1 online resource
  • 336 p.
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online
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9780062183798
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arky5r9
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Electronic reproduction.
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  • Format: Adobe EPUB
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