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Seventy baseball conditions ago, over a May evening at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a difficult single to kept field. It had been the quiet starting to the most resonant baseball achievement ever. Starting that day, the vaunted Yankee middle fielder kept on striking - at least one strike in game after game after game. In the summer of 1941, as Nazi forces changed relentlessly across Europe and young American men were drafted by the large numbers, it appeared only a subject of time prior to the U.S. went to war. The nation was apprehensive. Yet for two months in that tense warmer summer months, America was captivated by DiMaggio's astonishing striking streak. In 56, Kostya Kennedy says the remarkable report of the way the streak found its way into countless lives, from the Italian kitchens of Newark to the playgrounds of Queens to the San Francisco roads of North Beach; from the Oval Office of FDR to the top West Side apartment where Joe's first partner, Dorothy, the movie starlet, was wanting a child. Within this clean, evocative narrative Joe DiMaggio emerges in a recently unseen light, a 26-year-old on the cusp of becoming an icon. He comes alive - a driven ballplayer, a mercurial star and a conflicted man - as the strain and the scrutiny after him build with each transferring day. DiMaggio's success lives on as the best of sports records. Alongside the story of DiMaggio's remarkable search, Kennedy deftly examines the peculiar nature of striking streaks and with an incisive, modern-day perspective gets inside the quantity itself, as its pure improbability heightens both the mathematics and the magic of 56 game titles in a row.

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