Ironically, it was on July
17,1941 that 75 years ago day when the legend Joe DiMaggio a Yankee baseball
play ended his hitting streak of 56 consecutive game hits. As the games passed
and the hits came, the baseball began to take notice of the player and gave him
instant fame within 56 days. At 44 hits
he smashed the old record of consecutive hits. So how else celebrate? Let a big
band orchestra like the Les Brown Orchestra write a song about your success. It
was called Jumpin’ Joe DiMaggio. In 75
years no one has even come close to DiMaggio’s record. Even after retirement
after the 1951 season Joe remained in the public eye.
He married the iconic gorgeous
Marilyn Monroe to every ma’s jealousy. Even as he got older he became very rich
telling people to buy the then famous Mr. Coffee machines. The prizefighter
boxer George Forman took the idea and at one time was making $* million dollars
per year just suggesting in his commercials that we all buy his George Forman
grill that was simply an endorsement. He knows nothing about making a machine
just eating the food cooked on the machine. In the song lyric of Mrs. Robinson they sing,
“Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you”
Yes even in the late 60’s we were
craving a kind of national hero again even if he existed from some overrated
game. Joe died in 1999 at 84 years old. His hitting record survives along with
his songs.
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