Warning for the rest of the American League during the summer of 1941: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
On June 19, Joe DiMaggio started to get hot. Not that his new Yankee record 31-game hit streak wasn’t “hot,” in and of itself. But Joe had clubbed only one hit in each of the previous five games. The infield singles of the past two days were nothing to write home about.
This tidy, little 7-2 victory over the White Sox took only 1:45 to play. It was over quickly because the great DiMaggio made short work of Chicago starting pitcher Eddie Smith and staff on that Thursday afternoon.
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