7. Leaming, Marilyn Monroe, 174.
8. Allen, Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? 158.
9. Ibid., 158; Churchwell, Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, 242.
10. Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 376.
11. Liz Renay, My First 2,000 Men (Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade, 1992), 379; Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 379.
12. Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 377.
13. Allen, Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? 156; Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 384.
14. Allen, Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? 156.
15. Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, 455.
16. Ibid., 456.
17. Churchwell, Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, 332.
18. Leaming, Marilyn Monroe, 306.
19. Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 388.
20. Ibid., 386, 387.
21. Leaming, Marilyn Monroe, 304.
22. Ibid., 322; Crowe, Conversations with Wilder, 157.
23. Leaming, Marilyn Monroe, 371.
24. Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 390.
25. Ibid., 394.
26. Ibid., 399, 401.
27. Ibid., 395.
28. Ibid., 410.
29. Ibid., 411.
30. Allen, Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? 157.
31. Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 414.
32. Allen, Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? 157.
33. Simon, “The Silent Superstar,” 2; Miller, Timebends, 436, 532; Leaming, Marilyn Monroe, 410.
34. “Brilliant Stardom and Personal Tragedy.”
35. Churchwell, Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, 312.
36. Wolfe, The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe, 412.
37. Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, 534.
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The Greatest Living Ballplayer
1. Talese, “The Silent Season of a Hero,” 16.
2. Ibid., 7.
3. Engelberg and Schneider, DiMaggio, 76.
4. Talese, “The Silent Season of a Hero,” 14.
5. Engelberg and Schneider, DiMaggio, 70; Simon, “The Silent Superstar,” 2.
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1. Engelberg and Schneider, DiMaggio, 106.
2. Ibid., 107, 127.
3. Ibid., 153.
4. Ibid., 119.
5. Ibid., 137, 127, 346.
6. Ibid., 122.
7. Ibid., 1.
8. Ibid., 108, 284; Castro, Mickey Mantle, 238.
9. Engelberg and Schneider, DiMaggio, 384.
10. Ibid., 97.
11. Ibid., 203.
12. Ibid., 27, 28.
13. Borowitz, “The Lost Poems of Joe DiMaggio.”
14. Zezima, “A Recluse?”; Boylan, “Raise High the P.R. Blitz.”
Finale
1. Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 124.
2. Ibid.
3. Castro, Mickey Mantle, 114.
4. Ibid., 115.
5. Ibid., 113.
6. Ibid., xi, 5.
7. Ibid., xiv; Engelberg and Schneider, DiMaggio, 64.
8. Castro, Mickey Mantle, 175, 236.
9. Ibid., 220.
10. Curry, “McGwire’s Path Could Predict Bonds’s.”
11. Halberstam, Summer of ’49, 165.
12. Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 479.
13. Lipsyte interview.
14. Araton, “All-Juice Team.”
15. Wilson and Schmidt, “Baseball Braces for Tough Report.”
16. Chass, “Pettitte Plays a Pivotal Role”; Curry, “Election 2013.”
17. Glanville, “In Baseball, Fear Bats.”
18. Araton, “All-Juice Team.”
19. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 182.
20. Ibid., 74.
21. Gordon, Lives Like Loaded Guns, 111.
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Index
African American baseball, 46–50, 56–57. See also Gibson, Josh
Paige, Satchel
Robinson, Jackie
Allen, Maury, 29, 85–86
Anson, Cap, 46, 49
anti-Semitism, 53
Araton, Harvey, 141, 143
Arnold, Dorothy. See DiMaggio, Dorothy A.
“A-Rod” (Alex Rodriguez), 140–42
baseball: Black Sox scandal, 144
free agency, 135–36
glory days, 144–45
player salaries, 64, 140–41
post-war appeal, 62–63
racism, 46–47, 49–53, 56–57, 135 (see also Gibson, Josh)
steroid use, 136, 141, 142–43. See also World Series
and specific teams and players
baseball memorabilia: DiMaggio’s journals, 9, 127
DiMaggio’s signature, 9, 75, 76, 120–22
Mantle memorabilia, 123, 134
memorabilia shows, 9, 115–16, 117, 125–26, 134
popularity, 136
Bauer, Hank, 65–66
Bennett, Eddie, 20
Bonds, Barry, 141, 142–43
Borowitz, Andy, 127–28
Boston Braves, 21
Boston Red Sox, 17–18, 28–29. See also Williams, Ted
Bowery Savings Bank, 75, 115, 116, 120
Boylan, Jennifer Finlay, 127–28
Brando, Marlon, 80, 98
Brashler, William, 48
Bronx Bombers. See New York Yankees
Brooklyn Dodgers, 21, 46, 50–53, 55–56, 74
Brown, Bobby, 60
Brown, Les, 32
Busch, Noel, 28
Cannon, Jimmy, 3–4, 8, 90
Capote, Truman, 77, 98
Chaplin, Charlie, 74
Charyn, Jerome, 68–70
Chass, Murray, 142
Churchwell, Sarah, 110
Clark, Colin, 102
Clemens, Roger, 141, 142, 144
Cleveland Indians, 53–54, 61, 67, 135
Cobb, Ty, 1, 129
Cochrane, Mickey, 34, 66
Coleman, Jerry, 65
Cooper, Gary, 40, 41
Costello, Frank, 11, 75, 95
Cramer, Richard Ben: biography uncharitable, 2–3, 36
on DiMaggio and money, 75
on DiMaggio as player, 3, 75, 129–30
DiMaggio called disciple of Cobb, 129
DiMaggio’s last years skipped, 116–17
on Di Maggio’s pursuit of Monroe, 80
on Morris Engleberg, 120, 124
on Ted Williams, 2
Creamer, Robert, 21, 61
Crosetti, Frankie, 28
Crowther, Bosley, 41
D’Amato, Paul (“Skinny”), 100–101
Daniel, Dan, 20
Dickenson, Emily, 146
Dietrich, Marlene, 98, 107
DiMaggio, Dom (brother), xiii, 107
DiMaggio, Dorothy A. (wife): after divorce, 45
marriage crumbling, 39–40, 42, 43, 62
married to DiMaggio, xiv, 31
Monroe contrasted with, 80
penthouse, 33
DiMaggio, Joe
allure enduring, 136–37
appearance, 4
autobiography, 59, 111
background, 27–28
and baseball memorabilia, 9, 76, 115–17, 120–22, 123, 134
bat stolen, 33
as batter, 26, 34–35, 60–61 (see also DiMaggio, Joe: hitting streak)
biographies (see Cramer, Richard Ben Engleberg, Morris; Seidel, Michael; Talese, Gay)
booed, 30
in center field, 3–4, 26–27, 129–30, 137, 139–40, 145
chronology, xiii–xv
“class” on field, 12
comic books loved, 7
commitment and intensity (as player), x, 5–6, 10, 64, 68, 133, 143, 146
devotion to baseball, 2
early career, 4–5, 129
effect of Monroe’s death, 113–17, 119, 123–24
first marriage, xiv, 31, 33, 39–40, 42–44, 62 (see also DiMaggio, Dorothy A.)
gamblers and hoods associated with, 75
and Gehrig, 39, 40, 131
Gibson and, 49–50
as golfer, 101, 119
granddaughters, 125–26
greed, 75, 120–21, 127–28
hitting streak, xiv, 9, 32–37, 39
as icon, x–xi, 1–2, 10, 35–37, 139, 143–46
as idiot savant, 3, 9
importance to teammates, 55, 64–65, 141
inarticulateness, xii, 4, 9, 26, 35, 66, 74, 114
income, 64, 75
injuries and surgeries, 45, 54, 59–60, 63–64, 66, 129–30, 140, 145
introversion and secretiveness, 7, 11, 29–30, 66
isolation and loneliness (during career), xii, 6–7, 33–34
in Japan and Korea, 85–87
Joe DiMaggio Show, 74, 78
journals, 9, 126, 127
last season and retirement, 64–65, 66–68
&
nbsp; on left-handed pitchers, 137
Lipsyte on, 137–40
lost without baseball, xi–xii, 7, 10, 43–44, 70, 113
male company preferred, 74
and Mantle, 64–65, 66–67, 105, 115, 130–32
and the Monette Co., 101, 105, 106, 107
and Morris Engelberg, 119–25
and Mr. Coffee, 9, 115, 116, 119, 140
nicknamed “The Dago”/“Daig,” 55
and the Oakland Athletics, 115
post-war play (1946–51), 45–46, 54–56, 59–70
pre-World War II years, 25–28, 30–36, 39–40
prominent fans, 3–4, 5 (see also specific individuals)
public mesmerized by, 60–61
racism, 56–57
rage, 33, 40, 76, 78–79, 115, 121, 131, 140
reaction to lost games, 54–56
as recluse, xii, 113–14, 126–28
Rodriguez compared with, 141–42
rookie season, xi, xiv, 25–28, 63
as Ruth’s heir, 25–26, 62
smoking, 59
social graces lacking, 4
son, xiv, 33, 37, 39, 42
songs about, 1, 32, 62
statistics, awards, and titles, 28–29, 34, 45, 54, 64–65, 116
and Toots Shor, xii, 11–13, 45, 54–55, 66, 91, 107 (see also Toots Shor’s Restaurant)
war service, xiv, 41, 42–44, 62
and women, 30–31, 74, 76, 79, 100–101
See also DiMaggio-Monroe relationship
DiMaggio, Joseph Paul (son), adult life, 125
birth, xiv, 33, 39
and his father, 37, 42, 103, 126
DiMaggio, Kathy (granddaughter), 125–26
DiMaggio, Paula (granddaughter), 125–26
DiMaggio, Vince (brother), xiii, 4
DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight (Engelberg and Schneider). See Engelberg, Morris
DiMaggio-Monroe relationship: as career move for Monroe, 7, 76–77, 81, 83
dating, xv, 7, 76–77, 78, 79–82
devotion of DiMaggio, 2, 8, 104–8, 145
DiMaggio after Monroe’s death, 8, 113–17, 119, 123–24
DiMaggio and Marilyn impersonators, 100–101
DiMaggio’s perception of Monroe, 8, 79, 89
divorce, xv, 91–93
effect on DiMaggio, 10, 89, 93, 95–97, 100–101, 111, 127
honeymoon (Japan and Korea), xv, 85–87
jealousy and possessiveness of DiMaggio, 81–82, 87, 88, 91, 92, 105, 106
Mailer on, 8
marriage crumbling, 87–90
and Miller, 99–100
Monroe’s affairs, 82, 88, 92
Monroe’s death, 107–9