Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
by Richard Ben Cramer
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Author: Richard Ben CramerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Deckle Edge
Published: 2000-10-17
ISBN: 0684853914
Number of pages: 546
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Summary: 4 Stars
Cramer does an admirable job of giving us the real-life answer to Billy Chapel of recent movie fame ("For Love of the Game"). In real life, the single-minded focus that produces a DiMaggio, Sampras or Jordan often does not translate well off the field.This is the reason these on-field/court icons often shy from the cameras...they probably know all too well that we won't enjoy their "human side" any more than they enjoy bearing it for us. After all, they've prepared themselves exquisitely to perform on field (or on camera, or on stage, in the realm of non-sports celebrities) but not so to chat it up with us. They often spend most of their waking hours enduring training, and often, pain that we can't understand, wouldn't bear, would be bored to hear about, and mostly they "just don't want to go into it". None of this explains the sub-human treatment DiMaggio dealt out to those who loved him, either from afar or close-up.
The flash-of-gold-in-the-pan from Mr. Cramer's account is that if you want to enjoy the best sports performers, movie stars, have the best doctors, pilots, atomic engineers and other critical-skills professionals our society can offer, then do two things above all else: don't try to get them on the cheap, and don't expect them to be suitable party guests.
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