DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight | Morris Engelberg, Marv Schneider

DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight | Morris Engelberg, Marv Schneider | For anyone interested in celebrity lives, loves and secrets

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	DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight Morris Engelberg, Marv Schneider Motorbooks International, 2003 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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Not just a baseball book - A great book for all

I was so surprised to finally read a book that gave tremendous insight into the life of one of the greatest ball players ever. But I was more pleased that it is a great read about a great American. The details of Joe's life presented in this wonderful and compelling read are extraordinary. The detail, humorous asides, deep personal revalations and of course Marilyn make this book one of the best I have ever read. All baseball fans should read it. Yankee fans especially should read it. But people who just love a great true story should also read it even if they know nothing about baseball! Well done.

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For anyone interested in celebrity lives, loves and secrets

DiMaggio:Setting the Record Straight is a page turner from the beginning. I turned right to the Marilyn Monroe chapter, then went back to the beginning and read right through to the end. I am not particularly a baseball person, but love to read about celebrity lives. This book gives lots of detail, is well-written and give access to DiMaggio's life in a way that matches my memories of him as a hero of America. The man who married Marilyn. You will be touched by the relationship between Engelberg and DiMaggio--it is the story of true friendship.

DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight

I grew up listening to Yankee radio and going to the stadium several times a year with the PAL (Police Athlete League). It was wonderful, decades later to learn so much about a major figure from my youth. It was poignant to understand there were shadows and disapointments in his life. The cheers, triumphs, and repect he experienced were not his total experience. I found "Setting rhe Record Straigt" a full, nuanced and honest story. Surprisingly, my sons, without any direct knowledge of the Yankee Clipper were thrilled to get inside his life. Now they understand the inclusion of "the great DiMaggio" in Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea"

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