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Joe DiMaggio : the long vigil / Jerome Charyn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Icons of AmericaPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 170 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300172669
  • 0300172664
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Joe DiMaggio.DDC classification:
  • 796.357092 22
LOC classification:
  • GV865.D5 C53 2011eb
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Contents:
"Our national exaggeration" -- The walloping wop -- Joltin' Joe and the ghost of Lou Gehrig -- "C'mon, Joe, talk to me" -- The wounded warrior -- The princess of Yankee Stadium -- Mr. Marilyn Monroe -- "Bigger than the Statue of Liberty" -- The greatest living ball player -- The biggest fan of them all -- Finale : an outfielder's sky.
Summary: Examines the life of the baseball player in a new light, as a man who took his marriage to Marilyn Monroe very seriously long after their divorce, and had trouble finding a new role for himself during his retirement from the sport.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index.

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"Our national exaggeration" -- The walloping wop -- Joltin' Joe and the ghost of Lou Gehrig -- "C'mon, Joe, talk to me" -- The wounded warrior -- The princess of Yankee Stadium -- Mr. Marilyn Monroe -- "Bigger than the Statue of Liberty" -- The greatest living ball player -- The biggest fan of them all -- Finale : an outfielder's sky.

Examines the life of the baseball player in a new light, as a man who took his marriage to Marilyn Monroe very seriously long after their divorce, and had trouble finding a new role for himself during his retirement from the sport.

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