Keeping Score
Ian Jackman: Joe DiMaggio, 10 May 2001
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life
by Richard BenCramer.
Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., £20, April 2001,0 684 85391 4 Show More
by Richard BenCramer.
Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., £20, April 2001,
“... In the closing stages of Richard BenCramer’s biography of Joe DiMaggio there is an exchange between the baseball legend and a man called Cappy Harada for whom DiMaggio had done a bit of business. The episode is undated in the book, but took place some time before the San Francisco earthquake of 1989, at which time DiMaggio was 74 ... ”