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View Poll Results: Is this Joe DiMaggio? | |||
Yes | 12 | 29.27% | |
No | 18 | 43.90% | |
I'm not sure. | 10 | 24.39% | |
I don't care. | 1 | 2.44% | |
Voters: 41. You may not vote on this poll |
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Is this Joe DiMaggio?
Barry posed this question in another thread and later suggested someone should start a poll. I agree with Barry. Here it is...
There's something very interesting about that photo. It was taken in San Francisco in the early 1930's. At that time Joe DiMaggio was a teenager living there, who would of course have been very interested in meeting a star like Ruth. Now look about three inches to the left of Babe, and down a tad. There's a boy in a cap looking at the camera. Doesn't that look like a young Joe D.? So what do you think? isthisjoeD.jpg |
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Really not sure. The mouth, eyes and eyebrows sure do have his features. That said, I'm skeptical because if it were him, the experience of meeting Ruth during his teen years would have surfaced in some later interview.
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I agree with Jerry. That is a rather well known photo. It appears as the endpaper of Creamer's excellent biography. I would think that if it were Joe D., that would have come up before now. That being said, there is a resemblance.
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He sure bears a strong resemblance, but I had to vote "not sure". If there was a discernable gap showing between his two front teeth, I would have voted "yes". But there was a vey strong Italian population in S.F. at the time, and at least hundreds of kids that age who would have loved to meet the Babe.
So there's just not enough evidence to definitively say, IMO. Guess it's one of those things that will forever remain a mystery... |
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We actually noticed DiMaggio (or the DiMaggio lookalike) in the photo even before we spotted the Babe, when the pic was first posted in the other thread, but we were beaten to the punch in commenting on it. The resemblance seems remarkable. Then again, a face can change a lot from age 12 or 14 to adulthood. Aren't there any available photos of the Clipper from his boyhood that might allow a better comparison?
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... and the guy behind Joey is John Merrick
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not Joe
I voted no. Especially since an eight year old Joe "D" would not have been in New York at the game.
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Carlton, here's a link that was provided on the other thread to the photo in the Getty Archives.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...26tbs%3Disch:1
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