Joe DiMaggio: A Biography (Baseball’s All-Time Greatest Hitters): David Jones
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Grade 9 Up–A complex view of an American baseball legend. Twelve chapters, each headed by a quote to set the tone, chronologically discuss DiMaggio’s professional career and personal life from his roots as a son of Sicilian immigrants and one of nine children to his death in 1999. Jones describes the highs and lows of the “Yankee Clipper’s” life and the people who influenced him in positive and negative ways. Opinion is supported with careful documentation as Jones is kinder to DiMaggio than Richard Ben Cramer is in his biography, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life (S & S, 2000). Each chapter includes source notes. Nine black-and-white photographs are interspersed into this story of a man who did not know how to handle either his fame or fortune at a time when baseball needed a hero. Injuries plagued his career, but DiMaggio’s record of 56 consecutive hits still stands today, making this athlete a legend in spite of some of his personal decisions. Supportive documentation presented in an honest manner gives readers a fair representation of the subject. Both the sometimes-sensitive content and vocabulary suggest a fairly sophisticated readership.–Janice C. Hayes, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
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“[T]he perfect length for those “read a biography of these many pages” projects that teachers perennially assign. It would also serve any researcher well as a starting point for a project….Librarians should consider purchasing titles in this series to beef up their biography collections in anticipation of those annual assignments.”–VOYA
“A complex view of an American baseball legend. Twelve chapters, each headed by a quote to set the tone, chronologically discuss DiMaggio’s professional career and personal life from his roots as a son of Sicilian immigrants and one of nine children to his death in 1999. Jones describes the highs and lows of the “Yankee Clipper’s” life and the people who influenced him in positive and negative ways….Supportive documentation presented in an honest manner gives readers a fair representation of the subject.”–School Library Journal
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