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The true Joe DiMaggio, appreciated by the person who realized him best within the last decade of his life - candid and little-known reviews about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other great celebrities off the field. Dr. Rock Positano, an internationally renowned ft . specialist in New York City, was introduced to Joe DiMaggio by the dean of NY sports writers, Bill Gallo, in 1990. The Yankee Clipper's career-ending heel spur accident and botched surgeries helped bring them together. During the time Dr. Positano effectively cared for the Yankee Clipper, a a friendly relationship little by little developed. As Dr. Positano would learn, DiMaggio changed meticulously and intentionally. Dinner with DiMaggio employs the story of the a friendly relationship from its starstruck beginning through all its highs and lows over another decade. Forty years young than DiMaggio, Dr. Positano became a surrogate boy at the same time when his genuine son was experiencing substance-abuse problems. Positano's accounts of the times together show you DiMaggio's many rituals and quirks: the same meals at the same restaurants, the same pals in NY and Florida, jacket and tie everywhere. In the pinnacle of his popularity, DiMaggio had learned to be guarded and carefully monitored his image and private life. As his rely upon his young good friend grew, DiMaggio exposed about Marilyn but also about his first wife, Dorothy Arnold, the mom of his boy and the true love of his life. The Yankee Clipper realized everyone, and Positano stocks never-before-told reviews of celebrities DiMaggio admired and those he didn't. This is DiMaggio as he really was: sometimes cranky and determining but more regularly charming, nice, and dedicated and always big-hearted when it came to kids. The reviews and experience he shared with Rock Positano comprise an intimate portrait of one of the fantastic stars of football and one of the icons of the 20th century.
