JOE DIMAGGIO·1948

The season comes back to him at thirty-three, and the old swing still talks. DiMaggio hits .320 with 39 home runs and 155 ribbies, the doubles and triples piling up like autumn leaves in the Bronx. The war years cost him a step, maybe two, but the Clipper sails on, 190 hits and 110 runs in 153 games. The Yankees lean on him, and he carries the load. Then the cartoon frames take over, and the story spins off into the tall grass.

39 HOMERS

Thirty-nine home runs at thirty-three — the comeback still had thunder in the bat.

155 RBI

One hundred fifty-five ribbies — the Yankees leaned on the Clipper and he carried the load.

POST-WAR RETURN

War years gone from the card — but the old swing still talked in the Bronx air.

Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees, circa 1949. Newspaper archive / Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (US).