Word: dimaggios
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Toward the end of the 19th century, the boxer John L. Sullivan earned four times as much as the President, and Sully's contemporary Mike ("King") Kelly, baseball's first transcendent star, was able to underwrite a flashy lifestyle with what bleacher bums saw as an oversize paycheck. Joe DiMaggio was criticized for his regular spring-training holdouts, and in 1970, when Curt Flood challenged baseball's reserve clause, which bound a player to his team--in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court--most fans viewed him not so much as a great emancipator...
...dislike, the ability to hear symphonic music and watch dramas without leaving home and the opportunity to ride vehicles that can transport us anywhere in the world in a matter of hours, that their immediate response would be to cry out, "You live in paradise!"? THOMAS A. DIMAGGIO York...
...want Bush to stay out of it as much as possible," says a senior adviser. "We want Gore to look like he's desperate, like he'll do anything to win." By contrast, the strategists depicted their man as the very picture of rugged ease, reading the new Joe DiMaggio biography, jogging daily, clearing cedar from a path where he and Laura like to ramble--much the way Ronald Reagan found peace chopping wood...
...That's rather like if Joe DiMaggio was made to wait until the '90s to get into Cooperstown...
...rest of DiMaggio is rendered so vividly you almost want to look away. During his nonpareil career, DiMaggio learned to squeeze every drop of privilege out of his fame. Every nightclub operator in New York City understood that if DiMaggio came into his joint, it was good for business--which was why no one minded depositing the required couple of hundred into DiMaggio's account at the Bowery Savings Bank in exchange for the visit...