Name that player (Hint, it's not Joltin Joe....)
 

I bought this 1952 biography of Joe Dimaggio. I was pleased to get a fairly unique title (I'd never seen it before) but I think the editors got the cover photo screwed up.

Any guesses?

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5014/...c107a808_z.jpg

It looks like Ted Williams with a New York jersey on.

Rizzuto?...just a guess

Not Rizzuto.

First hint: he's not Italian.

Gene Woodling

Gene Woodling ist nicht gut! (that is, it ain't Gene)

Ferris Fain

Not Mr. Fain.

Hint #2 --It's a Yankee

Hint #2A: there's another hint in one of my posts above

Ist dass Der Iron Horse?

Gehrig

Gehrig it i!

The book cover illustration is complicated by the bad crop around his nose. Here's the same photo inside the book

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/...5448d620_b.jpg

Das Henrich?

You'd think someone doing a biography on DiMaggio would know that he hit right handed.

Here's a crop of the book cover shot of Gehrig. The cropping makes me look like a Photoshop professional

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5056/...5281ec96_o.jpg

Tis Old Reliable.

Dan

Now that i've brushed up on Italian, I see the book is an instructional rather than a DiMaggio bio. Joe was thus the "author" rather than the subject of the book