[新聞] Dom DiMaggio dies at 92
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Former Red Sox star Dom DiMaggio dies at 92
Seven-time All Star, brother of Joe, still holds team’s hitting-streak record
May 8, 2009
MARION, Mass. - Dominic DiMaggio, the bespectacled Boston Red Sox center
fielder whose career was overshadowed by his older brother Joe's Hall of Fame
career with the New York Yankees, has died at his Massachusetts home. He was
92.
DiMaggio died early Friday morning surrounded by his family, according to his
wife, Emily. She did not give a cause of death but said that DiMaggio had
been ill lately.
"He was the most wonderful, warm, loving man,'' his wife of 61 years said.
"He adored his children, and we all adored him.''
DiMaggio was a seven-time All Star who still holds the record for the longest
consecutive game hitting streak in Boston Red Sox history.
Known as the "Little Professor'' because of his eyeglasses and 5-foot-9,
168-pound frame, DiMaggio hit safely in 34 consecutive games in 1949. The
streak was broken on Aug. 9 when his big brother caught a sinking liner in
the eighth inning of a 6-3 Red Sox win over the Yankees.
The younger DiMaggio also had a 27-game hitting streak in 1951, which still
ranks as the fifth longest in Red Sox history. Joe set the major league
record with a 56-game hitting streak with the Yankees in 1941.
The oldest of the three center-field-playing DiMaggio brothers was Vince, who
had a 10-year major league career with five National League teams. Joe died
in March 1999, while Vince died in October 1986.
Better defensive player
Dom DiMaggio spent his entire career with the Red Sox, 10 full seasons plus
three games in 1953, and was teammates and close friends with Ted Williams,
Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky.
While Dom did not have the offensive numbers of Joe, he was generally
regarded as a better defensive player with a stronger arm, although their
career fielding percentages are identical.
He was a career .298 hitter with 87 home runs, while Joe was a .325 career
hitter with 361 homers. Dom's baseball career was interrupted for three years
(1943-45) by World War II when he served in the Navy, a military obligation
that may have cost him induction into the Hall of Fame, Doerr once said.
DiMaggio and Pesky "were really penalized for that, and I think it was kind
of a shame in a way because when you look, they have the numbers,'' Doerr
said in August 2007 during an appearance at Fenway Park.
Dom played a pivotal role in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series against the St.
Louis Cardinals, a heartbreaker for Boston fans. He batted in two runs in the
eighth inning to tie the game at 3, but he injured his leg while running the
bases and was replaced in center field by Leon Culberson for the ninth.
It was Culberson who fielded Harry Walker's double and threw it to Pesky
during Enos Slaughter's famous "Mad Dash'' from first to home that won the
game for the Cardinals.
Many argued that if DiMaggio had still been in center he would have handled
the play better and prevented Slaughter from scoring.
"Watching the play had been pure agony for Dominic DiMaggio...,'' David
Halberstam wrote in his 2003 book, "The Teammates.'' "His own injury, his own
pulled hamstring, Dominic now decided, had been the decisive play of the
game.''
3 All-Star games together
After the Red Sox finally won the World Series in 2004, their first since
1918, DiMaggio, Pesky and Doerr were on hand on opening day 2005 to raise the
championship banner at Fenway Park.
On June 30, 1950, Dom and Joe DiMaggio homered in the same game, the first
time brothers had hit homers in the same game in the majors in 15 years. They
played in the outfield together in three All-Star games.
After his playing career, he started a successful company that manufactured
upholstery and carpeting for automobiles, which he ran until his retirement
in 1983. He remained active in many charitable and civic causes, supporting
medical and education institutions, even serving on the board of trustees at
St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire. He also helped found the AFL franchise
that eventually became the New England Patriots.
"Dominic DiMaggio was one of the most successful players of his generation in
his post-baseball life,'' Halberstam wrote in his book. "He had become over
the years a man of means, graceful, elegant, and wise.''
DiMaggio grew up in San Francisco, one of nine children born to Sicilian
immigrants. His mother was a teacher and his father was a fisherman. He is
survived by his wife and three children, Dominic Paul, Peter and Emily.
Wake and funeral arrangements are pending, but will be held at St. Paul's
Church in Wellesley.
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