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Positano, Rock G.
Subjects
DiMaggio, Joe, 1914-1999.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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Positano, Rock G.
DiMaggio, Joe, 1914-1999.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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Dinner
with
DiMaggio
:
memories
of an
American
hero
/ Dr. Rock Positano and John Positano ; with a foreword by Francis Ford Coppola and an introduction by Fay T. Vincent.
by
Positano, Rock G.
Simon & Schuster, c2017.
Call #:
796.357092 D582p
Subjects
DiMaggio
, Joe, 1914-1999.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781501156847 (hc)
1501156845 (hc)
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
xiii, 350 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword / Francis Ford Coppola -- Introduction / Fay T. Vincent -- The last
American
hero
-- An unlikely friendship --
Dinner
with
DiMaggio
-- In the melting pot -- La bella figura -- A stand-up guy -- Take me out to the ball game -- A legend on legends -- Love lost -- Fans in high places -- It's cold on the tundra -- The patron saint of kids -- Winding down -- Swinging in Coney Island -- Last
dinner
with
DiMaggio
-- A simple memorial for a simple man.
Summary:
"The real Joe
DiMaggio
, remembered by the man who knew him best in the last decade of his life--candid and little-known stories about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other great celebrities off the field. Dr. Rock Positano, an internationally renowned foot specialist in New York City, was introduced to Joe
DiMaggio
by the dean of New York sports writers, Bill Gallo, in 1990. The Yankee Clipper's career-ending heel spur injury and botched surgeries brought them together. During the time Dr. Positano successfully treated the Yankee Clipper, a friendship slowly developed. As Dr. Positano would learn,
DiMaggio
moved very carefully and deliberately.
Dinner
with
DiMaggio
follows the story of their friendship from its star-struck beginning through all its highs and lows over the next decade. Forty years younger than
DiMaggio
, Dr. Positano became a surrogate son at a time when his actual son was suffering from substance-abuse problems. Positano's accounts of their times together reveal
DiMaggio
's many rituals and quirks: the same meals at the same restaurants, the same pals in New York and Florida, jacket and tie everywhere. At the pinnacle of his fame,
DiMaggio
had learned to be guarded and carefully managed his image and private life. As his trust in his young friend grew,
DiMaggio
opened up about Marilyn, but also about his first wife, Dorothy Arnold, the mother of his son and the real love of his life. The Yankee Clipper knew everyone, and Positano shares never-before-told stories of famous people
DiMaggio
admired and those he didn't. This is
DiMaggio
as he really was: sometimes cranky and calculating, but more often charming, generous, loyal, and always big-hearted when it came to kids. The stories and experiences he shared with Rock Positano comprise an intimate portrait of one of the great stars of baseball and one of the icons of the twentieth century"--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs
Other authors:
Positano, John
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