Joe DiMaggio: Baseball's Yankee Clipper

by Jack Moore

Overview

This is the book for the serious DiMaggio and sports-as-culture buff. Moore . . . has sifted through most of what has been written and rumored about the Yankee Clipper in newspapers, magazines, books and even songs. The narrative portion—there's also a bibliography and DiMaggio's baseball stats—is divided into two sections: DiMaggio's life on and off the field, and his evolving stature as a mythic figure. All rendered in sensitive, but refreshingly unsentimental, prose. USA Today

Anyone serious about building an excellent baseball library or interested in the role of sports in American society should get a copy of this book. . . . All in all, an excellent and well-researched book. The Sporting News

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313239175
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/26/1986
Series:	Popular Culture Bio-Bibliographies
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

JACK B. MOORE is Professor and Chairman of the American Studies Department at the University of South Florida, Tampa. His earlier works include two criticalbiographies, Maxwell Bodenheim and W.E.B. Du Bois, as well as numerous articles in publications such as the Jourbanal of Popular Culture and Studies in Short Fiction and several short stories.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Hero's Life
A Hero's World
Literature about Joe DiMaggio
Interviews
Appendix: For the Record
Bibliography
Index