The Late Great Joe DiMaggio
[From article]
DiMaggio did it all with such perfection and class. You didn't have to love baseball to admire what the man was doing. He even played double-headers because he respected the fan who had paid to watch him play.
DiMaggio was so American, the son of Italian immigrants who fully integrated into U.S. culture. I'm sure that he never expected for voting ballots to be in Italian.
DiMaggio's world was not perfect, from segregation to the world war that the country would be drawn into a few months after the baseball season. Nevertheless, there was a certain order and predictability to that world that I yearn for today.
Once in a while, I close my eyes and imagine what the world was like when men wore pinstriped suits and ladies were always elegant.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/do_you_feel_like_singing_where_have_you_gone_joe_dimaggio.html
July 18, 2015
Do you feel like singing 'Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio'?
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
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