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Joe DiMaggio at bat. The Yankee slugger hits a double during the 1949 All-Star Game. Gould often wrote of DiMaggio's 1941 hitting streak, as a statistically unpredictable anomaly, and the greatest feat in all of sports.
Joe DiMaggio at bat. The Yankee slugger hits a double during the 1949 All-Star Game. Gould often wrote of DiMaggio's 1941 hitting streak, as a statistically unpredictable anomaly, and the greatest feat in all of sports.
(Photo by Hy Peskin/ Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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