Streak: Joe Dimaggio and Summer of '41 (Penguin Sports Library) - Softcover

Seidel, Michael

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9780140121049: Streak: Joe Dimaggio and Summer of '41 (Penguin Sports Library)

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ISBN 10: 0140121048 ISBN 13: 9780140121049

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1989

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Joe DiMaggio's legendary fifty-six-game hitting streak in the summer of 1941 is set against the backdrop of turbulent events in Europe and of an America on the brink of World War II

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About the Author:

Michael Seidel is Jesse and George Siegel Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Ted Williams: A Baseball Life, available in a Bison Books edition.

Review:

"[DiMaggio's] feat is lovingly chronicled, game by game, in Streak, a book New York Yankee fans will admire. . . . [Seidel] has interviewed many of the men who played with and against DiMaggio that year and tells just how DiMaggio managed to keep on hitting and hitting."—New York Times Book Review (New York Times Book Review)

"This book chronicles the intricate factual events of DiMaggio's achievement, and pays the best kind of proper respect, while providing the right sort of description. . . . [It] succeeds with a simple and honorable premise. The streak itself is such a good story, such an important event in our cultural history, that the day-by-day chronicle will shape a bare sequence into a wonderful drama with beginning, middle and end."—The New York Review of Books (The New York Review of Books)

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