Keeping Score
Ian Jackman: Joe DiMaggio, 10 May 2001
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life
by Richard Ben Cramer.
Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., £20, April 2001,0 684 85391 4 Show More
by Richard Ben Cramer.
Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., £20, April 2001,
“... Joe said. ‘But he never won a thing.’ The Streak, the marriage to Monroe, the reference in the Simon and Garfunkel song (‘Where have you gone . . .’) and the old geezer waving to the crowd at Yankee Stadium are as much of DiMaggio as most people know – or knew before this book was published. ‘The Hero’s Life’ of Cramer’s subtitle is not to ... ”