From the NYPost…Yes I read the Post today. I read it Sunday too…In what's being billed as the grand slam of artifacts about the former Yankee great, DiMaggio laboriously jotted down details about his daily life in more than 2,000 pages of handwritten notes between 1982 and 1993. The diary, bound in 29 volumes, went on the auction block yesterday for a minimum bid of $1.5 million. The diary shows that while he married Monroe and set baseball's record 56-game hitting streak, the legendary slugger wasn't beyond recording what he ate one day in February 1992 - and even the $7 tip he left the waitress.
"I . . . took off for my place after having chicken hamburger . . . watched TV and called it a dull day. Food/Lounge: $38; Tip: $7," DiMaggio penned for his entry dated "Saturday, February 1, 1992: At Miami's La Gorce Golf Club."
Does a Chicken Hamburger disgust the SG? Yes. How about this: Joe's Special, a scramble of eggs, spinach, onions and ground chuck? Joe D used to get it at Original Joe’s in San Francisco. That is somehow less disgusting to me. Anyway, I am now on a mission to find the favorite foods of great (and not great) players. Help is appreciated.
By the way, you can click here for the complete NYPost story.
7/18/2007
Joe DiMaggio’s Chicken Hamburger
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the link did not work. thanks for the joe d info.
Funny thing is I used to live right by the La Gorce golf course in Miami Beach. I once saw Joe D (around the same time...92 or so) eating at a local Chicken Kitchen (fast food chicken chain). My dad ran in to pick up dinner and my brother and I waited in the car. My dad ran back and said you guys gotta come in here. We walk in and Joe's eating all by himself in an empty fast food joint. Kinda sad...anyway, my dad who doesn't usually ask for autographs couldn't resist and Joe signed a photocopied menu for my brother and I.
I can't figure out why the link won't work. sorry. guess you'll have to search. The writer is Dan Kadison
Here's the working link. Hope it works.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07172007/news/nationalnews/joe_d__diary_is_a_diamond_in_the_rough_katie_orlinsky_nationalnews_dan_kadison.htm?page=0%E2%80%9D
thanks. my code (as in html) was wrong. should work now
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