Betty Bonney, 100, Dies; Her Paean to Joe DiMaggio Was a Big-Band Hit
Singing with the Les Brown band, she celebrated the Yankee star’s 56-game hitting streak in 1941. She also performed on Sid ...
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Joe DiMaggio Jr.
When Joe DiMaggio died, a 57-year old man with a gray pony-tail was one of the select few allowed to attend the family funeral. He was a casket-bearer that day, his face anonymous to the national ...
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Joe DiMaggio’s Retirement
By the time the lights went on again, DiMaggio had vanished. Perhaps the best insight into why DiMaggio quit came from brother Tom: "He quit because he wasn’t Joe DiMaggio any more." ...
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Betty Bonney, singer who had a hit with ‘Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio,’ dies at 100
Her version of “Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio” was prominently featured in Ken Burns’s 1994 TV documentary “Baseball.” ...
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ESPN.com - Major League Baseball - DiMaggio book: Joe departs after the '51 World Series
From "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life" Editor's note: ESPN.com is running excerpts from Richard Ben Cramer's Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life recently published by Simon & Schuster. This is the third ...
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Joltin' Joe was a hit for all reasons
"All this dignity that he carried himself with was really about his own worship and adoration for what Joe DiMaggio meant to other people," says New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte on ESPN ...
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Betty Bonney, singer who had a hit with 'Joltin' Joe DiMaggio,' dies at 100
Her version of "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio" was prominently featured in Ken Burns's 1994 TV documentary "Baseball." ...