DI MAGGIO, Joe [DiMaggio].
Baseball for Everyone: A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players.
First Edition of Baseball for Everyone; inscribed by baseball hall of famer Joe DiMaggio
New York: Whittlesey House, 1948.
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Rare first edition of this instructive and entertaining inside story of baseball. Octavo, original cloth, with black and white illustrations and photographs. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Joe DiMaggio on the half-title page, "To Jeremy Taylor With Best Wishes Joe Di Maggio." Written with an advisory board of baseball experts including Frankie Frisch, Bill Dickey, Carl Hubbell, and Art Fletcher. Includes a special chapter "How To Score" by Red Barber. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine. Illustrations by Lenny Hollreiser. First editions are rare, especially signed.
Joe DiMaggio nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955, and was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken during the baseball centennial year of 1969.
Baseball for Everyone: A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players.
$1,800.00
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