Sport: DiMag & Co.

The great Joe DiMaggio did not begin to get his eye on the ball until late in May. That was all his Yankee teammates needed: after that, whenever Joe's big bat cooled off for a day, someone else took up the beat. Said happy Joe DiMaggio last week: "That's the way the old Yankees won pennants . . . when the top of the batting order got chilly, the bottom half got hot."

The New York Yankees were so hot that, with the season half over, they were now favorites to win their first American League pennant in four years. On the...

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