この２人の真骨頂。
ジョー・ディマジオ
... DiMaggio was distant, quiet, serious-minded, understandably wary of the press. He was so reticent, Hank Greenberg said, "If he said hello to you, that was a long conversation," and so protective of his privacy, a team-mate remembered, that he led the league in room service.
In many ways, he was the mirror opposite of Babe Ruth, whom he had replaced as the Yankees' greatest hitter. But he shared Ruth's determination to excel. A friend once asked him, when he was aging and often in pain, why he continued to play so hard. "Because," he said, "there might somebody out there who's never seen me play before."
One of his nicknames was Joltin' Joe, but in fact he made everything look effortless, moving under fly balls so smoothly he seemed to be in slow motion, gliding from first to second, never seeming to strain even when knocking the ball into the stands. "DiMaggio even looks good striking out," Ted Williams sad. ...
テッド・ウィリアムズ
.. brash young out-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, Ted Williams. He had a single goal: "All I want out of life," he told a friend, "is that when I walk down the street folks say, "There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived." He thought, talked, breathed hitting; he squeezed a rubber ball ceaselessly to strengthen his grip and refused to drink anything stronger than milk shakes for feat of dulling his skills.
Williams led the league in hitting. Going into the final two games, a doubleheader in Philadelpia, Williams average was .39955, which round off to .400.
Joe Cronin, now the Red Sox manager, suggested that he sit out the games rather than risk damaging that record..
急用あり。 以下略。
