Morgan Fairchild.....I Love Her
(props to anyone who guesses what show that line is from)

I think the in the first pic even Joe is suprised McNabb didn't know about ties. He did played baseball, and has been dead for 11 years, and even HE knew there were ties in NFL football.

Joe musta had a thing for blondes...Marilyn and Morgan? Eat your heart out Hugh!

She's probably thinking "I'm with MR. COFFEE!!!".

Sro, must be a red Sox fan, they just can't let it go,

Sorry Saro G post #1

Joe DiMaggio in his later years was a very bitter and unpleasant man. He went through a lot in his younger years, but that's just the way he was.

And no, I'm not a Red Sox fan, jd 1. Ted Williams wasn't much better his later years too. Come to think of it, Willie Mays is the same way. I guess there is an underlying resentment of the treatment (and $$$) players get today as opposed to what they got in their time.

A baseball player, especially Joe and those of his era, was much much more powerful in image to most people; mainly due to their relative remoteness from the fan in a much more 'innocent' time. Unless you actually went to the ballpark, you knew diddly about the true person. Now, we know too much and that's not a good thing. Back then, they were truly 'godlike' to many. Those of today, have no true concetion of the regard they expected and received.

scottk
home improvement

joe graced life's cover in '49 when, after missing the first half of the season, he joined nyy for the second half, which opened with three at fenway...nyy swept behind his four homers...his first wife, dorothy arnold, was no marilyn -- no one was; she was a stage actress of no note

this makes me want to beat on a table, and hoot. Just to see if you can get his attention! I hear he dunks his donut

I know this was posted awhile ago, but I just saw "Seven Year Itch" today on Fox Movie Channel, which includes one of Marilyn's most iconic moments - the "subway grate blowing her skirts" scene.
This seemed relevant to this posting when the host, Tom Rothman, mentioned a story that, while it may be well-known to some, was new to me. That the day the on-location shot was being done, a publicist at Fox leaked to the NY media that the "upskirt" scene was going to be filmed on Lexington Ave, which led to a press and fan feeding-frenzy, including Marilyn's new husband...one Joe DiMaggio.
Supposedly, after about 40 takes (most ruined by the crowd's hoots and hollers), DiMaggio angrily stormed off in a huff, without speaking to Marilyn. Rothman intimated the incident may have contributed to him divorcing her soon after, which led to her Britney-esque downward spiral, and eventual early death; the irony was that they ended up reshooting the "blowing skirt" scene later on-set at Fox' Hollywood studio, and thus never would have NEEDED to shoot it in public in NYC in the first place.
One wonders how both Marilyn and DiMaggio's lives might have been different if they hadn't.