Joe DiMaggio Ink Drawing
Yes, another sports art drawing of the great New York
Yankees Joe DiMaggio. Although, as a kid
I was more of a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, I did like to follow Joe DiMaggio
and listen to the games out of New
York on the radio.
As I have said in other posts DiMaggio was such an inspiration to so
many boys and playing baseball. This image
is an ink drawing by me, sports artist
John Robertson, is 11’ x 14” ink on watercolor paper.
Joe DiMaggio’s first play – first game.
Joe DiMaggio played in his first game with the N.Y. Yankees in on May
4, 1936. That was 81 years ago signing
out of
San Francisco
for $75,000. That was a lot of money
then – and to me- still a lot of money.
Yeh, he got a lot of cheers when he came to bat and even more when his
first time at bat he gets a single. It
wasn’t the best of hits as the grounder to the pitcher was an easy play. But there was a player on third so the
pitcher threw to home to protect the run.
And Joe was safe at first. That
was a good way to
start off his first day.
The inning got better for Joe when Lou Gehrig walked and
moved DiMaggio to second. Another great Yankee Gehrig was the New York Yankees
first baseman and played 17 years with a
batting average of 340. So, now DiMaggio
is on second and Gehrig is on first and the player on third had scored earlier
through a miss thrown ball. Ben Chapman,
an outfielder (and later involved in a
nasty event in baseball history) comes
up to the plate and hits a double, driving Joe to home. DiMaggio not only gets a hit in his first
time at bat for the Yankees but manages to score.
How Joe DiMaggio finished the game.
Joe DiMaggio comes up in the second inning and does it
again – this time getting a dropping a hit into the short outfield for a single
and later getting driven in for another run. Joe
hit a triple in the 6th inning.
He goes three for six in his first appearance and has a really good
start to his pro career.
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