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FROM NEWSDAY AND THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS:
56” is loaded with Americana — you can almost smell the marinara sauce simmering in Italian restaurants and hear the crackling of radios from New York to Los Angeles as Americans everywhere began and ended their day by finding out if The Great DiMaggio got a hit.
Kennedy combines the sweep of a historian, the narrative power of a novelist and the passion of a fan. “DiMaggio’s streak,” he concludes, “was the only event in baseball history that defied probabilistic explanation. In the end, The DiMaggio Enigma persists.” Of the 17,290 players who have appeared in the major leagues, “Only one of them had ever hit in 56 straight games.”