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Baseball
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Buck Privates
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Joe DiMaggio: A Hero’s Life
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The Atlanta Constitution; Boston Herald; The Brooklyn Eagle; The Cape Cod Times; Chicago Tribune; The Cincinnati Enquirer
; (New York)
Daily News; The Detroit News; The Duluth Herald; Duluth News Tribune; (Philadelphia) Evening Public Ledger; The Hartford Courant; Los Angeles Times; The Miami Herald; The Minneapolis Journal; New York Journal-American; New York Post; The New York Times; New York Tribune; The New York World-Telegram; Newark News; Newsday; Palm Beach
(Fla.)
Post; Philadelphia Evening Bulletin; The Philadelphia Inquirer; The Philadelphia Record; The
(Cleveland)
Plain Dealer; St. Louis Post-Dispatch; San Francisco Call-Bulletin; San Francisco Chronicle; The
(New York)
Sun; The Washington Post
.

Collier’s; Life Magazine; The Huffington Post; The National Pastime; The New Yorker; Popeater; The Saturday Evening Post; The Semaphores, Telegraph Hill Dwellers, Issue 187; The Sporting News; Sports Illustrated; Time Magazine
.

Aaron, Hank, 12, 315–16, 342

Abbott, Bud, 105

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 12

air raid wardens, 149

Albert, Jim, 340

Albright, S. Christian, 324–25

Allen, Frances, 169

Allen, Maury, 169–70, 224, 313, 316

Allen, Mel, 45, 238

Allen, Sheldon, 169

All-Star Game, 280, 281–89, 303

DiMaggio’s hitting streak and, 282–83

American League

All-Star Game, 280, 281–89, 303

championship club rule on trades, 33

statistics, 36

Anderson, Arnold (Red), 221–22

Anderson, Sparky, 254

anticommunists, 65

Appling, Luke, 121, 124, 127, 312

bad-hop ground ball and, 121–22, 131–33, 136

Aqua Velva commercials, 255

Arbesman, Sam, 333–35, 339

Archie, George, 219

Ardizoia, Rugger, 216

Armstrong, Neil, 314

Arnold, Dorothy, 156.
See also
DiMaggio, Dorothy

Associated Press, 181

athletic performance, statistical analysis of, 321–43

Atlanta Braves, 263

Atlantic Monthly, The
, 43

Auker, Elden, 179–80, 182–83, 197, 289, 312

Avatar
, 318

Averill, Earl, 38, 147

Babich, Francine, 205

Babich, Johnny, 205, 207–9, 286, 295

Baccari, Alessandro, Jr., 144–45, 217

Baccari, Edith, 145

Bagby, Jim, Jr., 305, 306, 308 318

Baker, Del, 31, 32–33, 41, 80, 285

Baltimore Orioles, 11, 226

Keeler, Wee Willie, 229–30

Band Box Revue, 156

Barber, Red, 64, 235, 283–85

Barmes, Clint, 86

Barrow, Edward G. (Ed), 18, 33, 34, 68, 80–82, 117–18, 151, 168, 175, 205

Barry, Gerald V., 81

Barsocchini, Reno, 317

basketball records, 12

bats, 221–22, 229, 232–33

“batter’s eye,” 189
n

batting averages, 190, 312

difficulty of achieving, 215

Sisler, George, 215

walks and, 327–28

batting stances, 110–11

Baumeister, Roy, 90

Bayes, Thomas, 337
n

Bayesian analysis, 337

Baylor, Don, 85–86, 90

Bear Mountain, 242–43

Bench, Johnny, 254, 261

Benny, Jack, 83

Benton, Al, 31

Berardino, Johnny, 135, 178, 182

Berg, Moe, 235

Bergman, Ingrid, 155

Bernoulli trials, 336–38

Bettes, 37–38, 107

Bickel, Fritz, 232–33

Bismarck
, 61

blackouts, trial, 62

Block, Martin, 83

Blood, Sweat and Tears
(Churchill), 289–90

Boggs, Wade, 326

Boiardo, Richie “the Boot,” 48–49, 50, 278

Boiardo, Tony, 49

Bonds, Barry, 316

Bonham, Tiny, 243

Bonney, Betty, 239

Borman, Frank, 314

Boston Herald
, 277

Boston Red Sox, 17–18, 36, 72–73, 80, 99, 228, 231–32, 234–35, 240–43

DiMaggio, Dom, and, 51–53

DiMaggio walked by, 32

night games, 68

Yankees and, 51–53

Boudreau, Lou, 74, 124, 302, 304, 306

Bower, Gordon, 88–89, 90

Bradley, Alva, 116

brain, 87

Brancato, Al, 207, 208

Brett, George, 89, 90, 192

Briggs, Walter, 80

Briggs Stadium, Detroit, 70, 79, 98, 281

Broadbent, Punch, 12

Brooklyn Dodgers, 36, 196, 205, 235