139 - Waiting for Joe DiMaggio

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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April 1993: A small village in Sicily prepares for the first visit of 78-year-old baseball legend Joe DiMaggio to the town where his parents were born and raised. Fishermen, artisans, grandmothers — some 3,000 villagers brush up on The Yankee and Marilyn Monroe. Italian and American flags are strung from the buildings, two thousand baseballs are purchased for Joltin’ Joe to autograph. A feast of sea urchins, calamari, pasta sarda and marzipan is cooked in his honor. Nearly the entire annual budget of the town is spent preparing to celebrate the homecoming of the Yankee Clipper. The Mayor, the City Council, the Police Commissioner and hundreds of other Sicilian well-wishers gather at the airport in Palermo waiting to greet their “native son.” But he never comes.

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0:57.4	Thank you so much for listening and for sharing with your friends. Today, with America's favorite pastime on hold, the Kitchen Sisters present one of
1:10.1	our favorite stories waiting for Joe DiMaggio.
1:16.0	Sicilian Village waits in vain for Jolt and Joe.
1:25.0	That was the headline that first pulled us in.
1:29.0	It was an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, April 26, 1993.
1:35.0	Jolten Joe, Baseball's legendary Joe Diemaggio, who played for the New York Yankees
1:40.4	for 1934 to 51, his His 56 game hitting streak still stands, one of the enduring records
1:47.6	in sports. We're fans of Joe DiMaggio. He grew up in San Francisco, the eighth of nine children of Sicilian immigrants.
1:56.2	He played in the Boys Club League with the other kids from North Beach right here near
2:00.0	our offices. Joe DiMaggio.
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