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EP332: Butch Hartman: Renowned Nickelodeon Cartoonist and George Will: Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and the Summer of '41

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June 1, 2022 3:05 am

EP332: Butch Hartman: Renowned Nickelodeon Cartoonist and George Will: Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and the Summer of '41

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June 1, 2022 3:05 am

On this episode of Our American Stories, Butch Hartman, creator of Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, and so much more shares how he went from the snowy shores of Michigan to the sunny coast of SoCal. George Will tells the stories of Ted Williams and the son of a San Francisco fisherman, his “Streak,” and steely determination.

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00:00 - Butch Hartman: Renowned Nickelodeon Cartoonist

37:00 - George Will: Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and the Summer of '41

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Send them our American stories.com then go to our American stories.com as far as animators and visionaries go Walt Disney is probably the most recognizable name in that case, but the kids who grew up in the late 90s or early 2000's. Some of the members of the staff. Another name brings back a lot of memories which Hartman created two of the most well-known cartoons the last two decades fairly odd parents and Danny Phantom ears much to tell us his story and how we went from the snow insurance of Michigan. The sunny coast of Southern California. My wife very first memory is a member I was in kindergarten teacher.

I forget her name is Mrs. Shelley and Mrs. Shelley asked all the students to draw a picture of her and I thought okay wise. I stuck a kid, I drew a picture I just forgot about it and then she started making a huge deal out of my picture.

My conscious is the best picture ever seen. And you know she was raving about it and basically humiliated all the other kids. I think what she's I am putting this up on the wall. This is just amazing that you put my picture up on the wall on her forget that I thought wow drawing is a real great way to get attention from adults so that I could just keep drawing attention from adults because your kid what you want all the attention, so I thought I sent him so I keep drawing selves I started drawing and drawing and before I knew it, I really liked and I really realize that I had kind of a maybe a little bit of skill for it and just started training myself and growing up and I love Saturday morning cartoons. A lot of us today. Maybe some the older folks remember Saturday morning cartoons, but when I was a kid not place you could get cartoons was on Saturday morning for the most part inside get up and have my big bowl attracts whatever sugary cereal I could get and watch cartoons from six in the morning till 11 in the morning and then go outside and play and I watched some muscle my favorites back then were the wacky races by Hanna-Barbera Scooby Doo again by Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera pretty much owned Saturday morning Jetsons in the Flintstones and Johnny class tiny classes of my favorites, never realizing later on in life idea I do networking for Hanna-Barbera. Years later, but yeah those cartoons really influence me then of course Disney had lots of wonderful to Disney on Sunday nights and loved movies like Star Wars and things like that in just really got a real fantasy mindset in a drawing mindset and I kept drawing the whole time to I want to draw superheroes and animate. I did that up until I do all through high school author school. I do the cover the of the school yearbook and things like that in and of meeting a couple guys that didn't go to my school.

I went through another friend to these other two guys I met there were little older than me and they were animation nerves like me but they were better than I was and one guy was the oldest guy was particularly great. He was a senior.

I was a sophomore in this older guy was going to a school out in California and I'm in Michigan.

Remember I'm snowed in. He's going to this magical school in California is called California Institute of the arts and was founded by Walt Disney and it was the only swarm the only schools in America at the time the taught character animation and so I thought wow that's pretty cool. How can I get. That is why you practice over the next two years or older friend went to Keller's first and my second oldest friend went to college after him. What about time I was a senior in high school I was Artie sending these guys drawings through the mail and they would kinda grade my drawings and send them back to me through the mail again. I got this is what were looking for here is the school really wants to see. I go to the Detroit zoo in the dead of winter.

It was freezing in the zoo and I would like to draw I draw the animals in my sketchpad and stand there no for freezing cold in my coat drawing the Tigers and the girls. It's interesting when I applied to Cal arts. Again, I'm a kid in Michigan and no one in my family never even been to California, let alone live there and I wanted to go to California and I just live there make a living there and you know work in the animation industry.

My debt was an auto worker. My dad was a does the Detroit auto workers like he was very supportive but had no idea how to support me in this other than hail supports you and I'll help you get financial aid will go to the school and all that stuff so I was able to do that and I really what I wanted to go to California since it was a kid a member watching the show.

Adam 12. This really dates me, but I wanted to show Adam 12 be sitting in Michigan in the snow, watching these cops in California in the sun with palm trees going. How do I get to get to that place and I think I was dreaming. California as a kid so I get the Cal arts and I was probably one of the best artists in my little town in Michigan. I ended up moving to a town in Michigan called on to Baltimore saws into Baltimore. Some of the best artists in town that I knew of. Anyway, I get the Cal arts was also going to the major leagues of baseball. Everybody was amazing that I got there thinking I could draw that I was hot stuff and the people surrounding me were just amazing and you I had a decision to make, either. I up my game and get better and compete with these people, or I go home I was like a, to keep going and I realize I could be as good as these people doing what they do, get good at what I do yard started enhancing my skills to start practicing more getting better now surround the cool thing was I was surrounded by a bunch of an amazingly talented artists and creative people in this back in the 80s I got the Cal arts in 1983.

So all the people I went to college with ended up going into the animation industry and the entertainment industry annexing running the industry. We all ended up getting shows and movies and things that that started influence the way the culture was going.

Little did we know at the time Don believed was pretty big back in the 80s he and he was an animated hood left Disney and started his own animation company. He did recall the secretive Nam. He did one of the very first animated video games called Dragon's Lair and he did space Ace was not a videogame and I did a bunch of other great animated stuff and they thought he was to be the next Walt Disney. He was hired to produce American tail which is produced by Steven Spielberg and when I reference animation jobs ever.

I was at school up in Valencia California and a friend of mine says hey you know I hear they're looking for in between her's on this movie called American tail and in between her real quick lesson in animation you have someone who does. The first pose in the last pose. That's the animator and in between her puts all the poses in between those poses. That's how it was traditionally done for many many years. Base of the in between is kind of the lower level animator and training and so like okay basically let's go take animation test, and you're listening to Butch Hartman tell his story learning early that the gift of drawing your attention from the adults. Pretty soon will a childhood dream was about to happen. We also learned he was walking straight into the major leagues the needed step up his game which he was more than willing to do when we come back more Butch Hartman story here on our American store view of the great American stories we tell and love America like we do, risking you to become a part of the American stories family. If you agree that America is a good and great country. Please make a donation monthly gift of $17.76 is fast becoming a favorite option for supporters to allow American stories.com now and go to the donate button and help us keep the great American stories coming without American stories.com suit millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this@uhcmedicarehealthplans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives.

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Hartman was stunning animation at the California Institute of the arts and some friends were headed to the studio of animation giant Don audition to be in between, or low level animator's booth in Steven Spielberg's 1986 classic American tail back to Butch so we all drove down to non-blue studios in Van Nuys, California and displays data geyser for the test. Like yeah she gives a folder and there's two drawings in my folder there is the first pose in the last post I just put in between's and will see you tomorrow and my friends and I all got folders and we all went back to school and worked our butts off all night.

We got up early morning so cans go back down there.

We drove down there and we handed our tests in and then we wait for like 10 minutes she comes out okay here's a scene for you here to see, and she basically comes out animation scenes for us. They hired us to be in between is on American tail and so I get that was my first real animation job and I didn't get credit on the film because I didn't do enough footage to get credit.

I did like I think you do like 100 feet to get credit.

I did like 90 feet of film to get that's all I did.

I did like five scenes in American tail, but I was a great experience. I really enjoyed.

I never graduated Cal arts. Actually, I went three years and was a very expensive school and I couldn't afford my fourth year I could barely afford my first three years got out of school left after my third year and began looking for a job in the industry and my first job I landed was at Marvel productions in Van Nuys that Marvel had just opened in animation studio here in the 80s there was in Van Nuys and I am got a job at Marvel productions.

I thought what this is going to be great. I'm going to get to draw Spider-Man Capt. America and the whole it can be so cool in my first job was on the original production of my little pony itself working on my little pony. This is the really bad my little pony that came out in the 80s was based on the toys and I couldn't draw the ponies well enough what they did. They hired me to be a character designer and that's basically like your basic join the actors in the cartoon but then they put me on storyboards which I'd never done for anyone else myself before and I'm like okay I can do this but was a much harder much more involved job land getting fired off that job off of my little pony stuck with me for years I that II would never allow myself to get fired again I would be able to do any job that anybody threw at me. I found another job at a company called Ruby Spears productions and they're the guys who created Scooby Doo for Hanna-Barbera.

They open up their own animation studio and they were doing shows in the 70s I got hired there 1986 to work on a show called punky Brewster was the animated version of punky Brewster in the animated police academy series all the stuff so so I work in their and out during that time I started pricing storyboards and background design and painting and all this other stuff just to make myself a better artist a more valuable artist and the one thing I really started practicing more of his writing. I want to be a writer as well a lot of artists this office. People who drop, but they don't realize they can write as well. I started writing I would write in my own I would write scripts on my own.

I would write you know little things on my own. Nobody would ever read them because I was just for me but eventually I started walking by the writers room and they would say hey you got it is for this for this joke. I say what's up what's going on, they would tell me the story. It's okay to do this to be fun.

If the dog did this for the cat did this is funny they would put that in the county became like a gag writer at Ruby Spears productions and then I started working at Hanna-Barbera which became Cartoon Network's Ted Turner bought it and turned in cartoon network at work and there is an artist within. I was also doing storyboards. I began writing on some other shows and I was just drawing on those shows but then an opportunity came up a guy named Fred Sievert was hired to run Hanna-Barbera which is now Cartoon Network and he offered everybody in the studio the chance to pitch their own show and I thought wow this is cool but I'm I going to do it. I was terrified, but a friend might not call us do it. So I helped him pitch his show and I got sold and then this is gonna find Phyllis come up with another idea I was been the guy who worked on other people's ideas, but never really worked on my own idea and like I really got a start come up with ideas. I really start applying myself to working on my own ideas. Characters and stories and that type of stuff and I was in the 90s at Hanna-Barbera and so I worked on that kind of becoming a director and a writer on the Johnny Bravo show Dexter's laboratory as a writer and storyboard artist, cow and chicken was another show as a writer and artist had a lot of stuff in Hanna-Barbera and I worked with a guy named Seth McFarlane who was a young kid out of Rhode Island. He came Hanna-Barbera when he and I worked together as writers on Johnny Bravo. He ended up selling show called family guy to Fox. It was called Larry and Steve at first and then he sold it to Fox and he wanted me to come over there and work with him but rights as he sold his show ended up selling a little show called the fairly odd parents to Nickelodeon and that's kind of where my Nickelodeon journey began. Great opportunities are very rare, like comments, I would say it's like Haley's Comet like you. You know it's really beautiful, really awesome, but you not to see it again for a while. She better sees it.

While it's volunteer, and I realize as an opportunity, I've gotta try this. No sink or swim, I gotta try this and so seizing those opportunities when I first cartoons I sold work that great.

They were fine. Certain aspects of them were okay.

Maybe the characters are really good in this because I was a character designer, but the timing was bad summit time this myself, and the animation timing. I went to write this dialogue myself. It's ions are doing the stuff myself so I know will be what I wanted to be at the end when I pitched fairly on parents. I was about to get fired from again of firing is coming up. I would say was firing was getting laid off is Johnny Bravo's ending is working on Johnny Bravo and it was ending and at this point is 1997. At this point Ari had one daughter is made for five years and had another daughter on the way and it's like why need a job I really got tired of looking for jobs. I think everybody out there, gets tired of looking for jobs.

I was tired of always having a job and go to another when it's hot, works in animation so that you only do I'm going to make my own show and Fred Sievert who had left Hanna-Barbera had gone to Nickelodeon and he was starting up a show called the oh yeah cartoon show and the oh yeah cartoon show is basically a show. If you watch did you watch a half-hour show you C3 seven minute cartoons during that half an hour and he's cartoon was made by different person.

He said I have one slot left you have any ideas. I said yup. I got an idea seals I'll see you Friday and hung up the phone I had nothing.

This is like Tuesday. I need a job size that dies on the come up with an idea that I love that I can work on for 20 years. Just, so that in my head and I drew a little boy named Timmy.

I do this will boil because I know you always write what you know why I was a little boy. Once I dug a little boy he can go anywhere he wants. I thought maybe you do that with science that defies a science kid but then Dexter's laboratory was already show. I know I could do a science kid. I was tell people make sure you do your homework.

Don't come into a company with a show idea that they arty have come up with a different idea. So I thought about magic, that's kind of fun. Maybe some magic kid and now maybe he's got magic friends and so I came up with these two fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda Venus was her name originally by changed one and Seinfeld had just revealed a Kramer's name is Cosmo on the Seinfeld show the cosmos. A funny name, site name Cosmo and Wanda and their his fairy godparents and so I was under contract to pitch that to Hanna-Barbera so I pitched it and they turned it down. Cartoon Network turned it down and so I end up going to Nickelodeon with Fred Cyrus and Hecate. This idea called the fairly odd Reggie was great, let's do it.

So that became part of the oh yeah cartoon show was one pilot episode seven is long and we did it, and Nickelodeon liked it so much to give me like four more I did for more than he liked so much. Give me six more. I did six more pretty much by myself.

I like maybe two or three people help me and then the focus tested those several episodes I did and they did really well. It wasn't a hit. At first Ami we they get only gave me 6/2 hours at the beginning is about a year and 1/2 and then Nickelodeon was picking it up. They were like I get cool things will start airing these, you know.

Good luck.

We'll see what happens now my car arrives. I was actually formulating in my head. I gotta go get another job.

I'm going to go get another gig and picked up the show in 2000 and I love Nickelodeon to get me wrong but they did not pick up the show. So they go we need more episodes of fairly odd parents of my great, I'm happy to do them. We premiered the show.

March 30, 2001 and the show really took off like a rocket ship that Wade did fantastic and were like well this is… A circle and you're listening to Butch Martin and is walking us through well what life is like when you just go out and you try something your best Butch Hartman story well it continues and when we come back we hear the rest of his story here on our American story suit millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this@uhcmedicarehealthplans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives. I know everything there is to know about running a coffee shop for small business insurance.

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Maybe take a long lunch every day they would.

It was also the tortoise and the hare, they would wait till the end of the race to finally try and catch up. And by the end of the show wasn't that good today and pay a lot of attention to it and I would see opportunities get missed like these guys. They would think it was easy was old one shot to sell another one. It really isn't that easy. It's very tricky in Hollywood to sell anything as I would watch these guys like kind of not pay attention and I'd be going well. I'm do the exact opposite of what to make sure I spend every waking moment on the show. My wife understood I said like this a big opportunity. I've got a be there during the day is much I can and at night I would come home I played my daughters. I come home at 7 o'clock at night and play for with them for two hours a go to bed and I go back up to my office at home and I would work again to like two in the morning and then get up at like six and repeat the process all over again every day so fairly odd parents, and I was in pretty good with the people at Nickelodeon picked up the shows ahead so I knew they liked me my blog, you probably get them to maybe do another show if I play my cards right by Skype up the right idea. I thought you what I just need a people I knew they were looking for boys action show. I thought menaces. This is awesome I love comic books. I love it when my favorite shows was Johnny Quest back in the day. What a great name Johnny Quest if I come up with a cool name me just the coolest name of all time. Like Billy dynamite or whatever like I trending of cool words that were calling dynamite power thunder lightning and somehow I ended up on the word Phantom Danny Phantom, that's a cool name and look at that kid do so is good Ashley make it like a Scooby-Doo type thing. We got a bunch of friends of his got a pet owl and the fight goes with weapons.

You know, but then I thoughthim a superhero is making like he's a he's 1/2 ghost kitty. Can I go to walls disappear and then the execs at Nickelodeon about six months later took me out to dinner this really odd parents is doing really well is one of those Hollywood stores were, but he dreams about and it's kinda cool that it happened but was in their dinner, and these guys like him and we love fairly odd parents would love to pick up more. I thought great, that's awesome and eyes as I adheres to. More episodes great and that's I give anything else.

I thought wow then again there's an opportunity what you do in a Hollywood executive says do you have anything else even if you have nothing else to say yes like yes I did so this one thing is different fairly odd parents, but it's a boys action show. It's called Danny Phantom he goes oh my gosh that's great you have it done in three months and I went well. Of course I said sure why not. So I left. At dinner I had more fairly odd parents in a brand-new show called Danny Phantom and I really hadn't really thought much about it. I came to work the next day announced to my crew.

We are fairly odd parents are buddies cheering the employment and then I said that we have a brand-new show called Danny Phantom like what and I'm in a pull some of you often fairly odd parents work on to subdue my work is been doubled have two recording sessions a week.

I have two writing meetings to editing sessions to storyboard pictures like everything doubled suddenly but I was so down for them so into it. I didn't even see my work to me was so much fun. I mainly just said this to myself and I you know I you II pray a lot. I said God, you know what you give this opportunity.

I know you're going to make time for me to do this you know that I'm diligent you know I'm not can I let it shine like a short my duty here Mike and let this slide. I had to be a good steward over this. Anything to permit as a series 2004, in a fairly odd parents ran all the way from 2001 to 2018 ran for 17 years, and so during the day the fairly I called the Philly utterance train other shows what kind of hop on hop off Danny Phantom hopped on from 2004, 2007 and never 2010 2013 my third show tough puppy hopped on and III always wanted to do a comedy kind of a crime-fighting show and that's were tough puppy came from my I wanted to get smart with a dog, it's Buffy came around and I was one of the funny shows ever got to work on. I went in and pitched for shows that day tough puppy was kind of off to the side. I didn't even think it had a chance. I kind of put off to the back of the room's other great ideas about their pitch in these four ideas. These execs were looking at me like American Idol like three people said notice deadpan faces more than anything. I was selling but then there were like was that whatever that is all that was about get smart with a dog and they're like oh that's great I love it anymore on that I have for said yes I do and I ran up to my office and made up the whole tough puppy show in about two's is it is what it is and it's about a gang of good animals finally getting about animals and the whole city called Metropolis were only animals live pitch tough puppy. They loved it.

We made it into a series. It lasted for three seasons. My last show I did Nickelodeon tough puppy was over a saloon fairly odd parents and I pitched one more show. It was called Bunsen is a beast, and I don't know where I came up with that name. Is that it was a fun name I can't always send over the sketchpad. Always write down ideas and for some reason Bunsen I wrote down Bunsen is a B's it's really funny so that show is about a kid named Mikey who is trying to get through school without getting murdered and in a Bunsen is this little beast is the first beast to ever go to a human school and he doesn't want to scare anybody. It's Felix it's PCI can can beasts interact with humans and he goes to school is excusable, beast cute as can be and human Mikey former friendship and this evil girl in the school named Amanda Kelman who hates Bunsen and wants to wants to destroy him.

So it's always Mikey and Bunsen against Amanda Brown 2018 message you notice, it's, it's time to go. I think it's something I was I was 20 years. At that time I did. I got there on 97 I saw Philly Prince December 97 and then started working there. 98 so nine 2010 I been up for 20 years and I still loved my job. I still love Nickelodeon. I was always treated well there. There were just great to me. I have nothing ever bad to say about the place, but Philly utterance was done and saw that you know I think it's time to go for now we will come back or something.

I just kinda started to my own stuff. I started going into YouTube and doing some streaming stuff I look at it in terms of who have I been able to influence. II go like were were my shows and influence to people in a positive way. Now did I make them laugh, that I maybe help them through a hard day did I get them through a hard test at school and did I give up may be aligned to quote later on to their own kids, you know I still love the quote movie lines all the time dry people and saying I would just quote movies from beginning to end. As any kid out there like me that wants to quote movie lines or cartoon lines and I'm hoping I'm given them a little bit of that and listen to it. I look at it is a huge responsibility because we all influence somebody every one of us out there. Hasn't circle of influence around us that we probably don't even realize. So your attitude your your projects.

You're the things you're putting out there will influence somebody in some way.

Why the other positive or negative. So it's up to you to realize that to figure out which way you want to go so hopefully have gone to good way and a great job on that piece is always by Robbie and a special thanks to Butch Hartman for just bearing his life story to us and what a story of creativity matching in meeting commerce, and for all that artists can do whatever they want and they can take something to somebody. In effect, somebody says no they take it to somebody else.

Butch Hartman story in my goodness fairly odd parents, Danny Phantom tough puppy and I just love the story of that pitch he made it up on the spot and sometimes we do that in our lives. We just have to improvise. Butch Hartman story here on our American story suit millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65.

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The officials of the slugger company once challenged Williams to pick the one that among six that wait half an ounce more than the other five. He did he want sent back to the factory a shipment of bats because he sensed that the handles were too sick they were by 5/100 of an inch in 1941, Williams was hitting 39955 going into the season-ending doubleheader in Philadelphia Scheib Park daylight savings and ended the night before so the autumn shadows made hitting hard would be even worse if Williams had not played his average would've been rounded up to 400 instead he went six for eight public address for six today, when the batter hits a sacrifice fly is not charge that in 1941 he was Williams manager Joe Cronin estimates with 14 of the summer under today's rules as average would've been four $0.19. The highest average is been George Gretz, 390.

In 1980, Williams achievement is one of the greatest in baseball history but not the greatest. In 1941. Nothing in baseball quite matches DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak. The Yankees were on a pair so at home.

They rarely the bottom of the ninth. DiMaggio had to get his hits in eight innings and in the 38 streak. He was hitless at the bottom of the eighth the Yankees ahead 3 to 1. He was scheduled to be the fourth batter first batter popped out the second walk and Tommy Hendrick was worried he was a power hitter who rarely bonded to a double play. The street probably would have returned to the dugout got manager Joe McCarthy's permission. On July 8 in Detroit. The American the most exciting All-Star game when with two out in the bottom of the ninth nationally before Williams hit a three stadiums deck play resumed after the All-Star break with DiMaggio streak at 40 8477 31 at-bats pressure intensified DiMaggio's performance became greater.

He had four hits in the 50th game went for for aid in the doubleheader that ran the street to 53. Two hits in the 55th game of 356 streak ended in Cleveland when the endurance third baseman Ken Keltner made two terrific stops rocketed grounders those times. His momentum carried him into foul territory from which he threw DiMaggio out like in those 56 games. DiMaggio hit 408 91 hits 35 for extra bases, including 15 homeruns. He drove in 55 runs and scored 56 the next day he began a 16 game hitting streak when it ended safely in 7273 games not counting his head in the All-Star game. Most records are improved by small increments, not this one. The consecutive game hitting record for the Yankees have been 29 the modern major league record had been George Sisler's 41 the all time major-league record had been Willie Keeler's 44 DiMaggio fell short. Only two other professional hitting streaks 69 games by Joe Wilhoit Wichita Western league in 1919 and 61 in 19 33 x 18-year-old playing for the San Francisco seals Joe DiMaggio DiMaggio streak radio broadcasts of been interrupted to bring about his progress.

Once radio interrupted baseball on the night of May 27 when the Braves were playing the Giants in the Polo grounds. Both teams left the field for a while at 10 37,000 fans. This is written address describing the lowering clouds of danger Michael Seidel off the roof streak Joe DiMaggio in the summer 41 says DiMaggio was a lot like the taciturn enduring characters then played in movies by Jimmy Stewart Gary Cooper was soon to play Lou Gehrig DiMaggio number five is the successor to Lou Gehrig number four, who died on June 2, 1941, of the disease that now bears his name.

Was 17 days shy of his 30th birthday he died 16 years to the day after became the Yankees regular first baseman came to streak of 2130 games, consecutive played DiMaggio similar stance toward life astutely will understated style is consistency was mesmerizing to a nation that new it would soon need what he epitomized heroism for the long haul.

However, the unrivaled elegance of his career is defined by two numbers even more impressive than his 56 eight and 08 is this machine a small difference between his 13 year career totals for homeruns 361 and strikeouts 369, 1986 and 1987 seasons. José Canseco had 64 homeruns and struck out 332×0 is the number of times. DiMaggio was thrown out in his entire career going from 1st to 3rd base on the field and made few mistakes off the field emitter's marriage to Marilyn Monroe large to mythic status as when they were in Japan she visited US troops in Korea.

Upon her return to Tokyo she said to him, and generously never heard cheering like that.

There must've been 50 or 60,000 you said dryly. Yes, I have gone to Japan at the recommendation of a friend dual manager of the San Francisco seals precipitate a foreign country they could wander around without drawing crowds. The friend did not know that Japan was obsessed with things America, especially baseball stars and movie stars from the most famous of each category landed car six hours to prepare their hotel people as a Californian represented baseball's future. He and San Diego's Williams, a 21-year-old 1939 when DiMaggio was 24 DiMaggio Salmon San Francisco session was proud to serve as private as possible for their second generation of America's premium athletic tradition the Yankee greatness established by Babe Ruth.

DiMaggio felt violated by the side of Marilyn filming the famous scene in the seven years it on a gust of wind from a Manhattan subway grate loser skirt up over supposedly one of the seven deadly sins is often the virtue and the service of others.

DiMaggio was prescribed incarnate and he and Hank Greenberg did much to stir ethnic pride among Italian Americans and Jews as a player, DiMaggio had nothing left to prove he was asked why he still played so hard every day because he said every day there's have to be some child in the stands was never before seen me play an entire ethnic code of craftsmanship can be tickled from that admirable thought DiMaggio practice the full range of his craft. When one of his managers was asked if DiMaggio could bond. He said he did not know and I'll never find out either DiMaggio, one of Jefferson's natural aristocrats proved a healthy democracy nose and honors nobility when it sees you been listening to George will story of Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams. The story of class incarnate. You, on our American stores