The death of Joltin' Joe struck such a chord. Elsewhere, a more hospitable scene opens. The grass in Florida and Arizona is green and freshly cut. The sun gleams bright and hot. Desert and tropics, grapefruit and cactus, the first blooms of the season portend the summer warmth.
Spring comes slowly to the District of Columbia.
But in the nation itself Spring Training has blossomed already. As every educated citizen knows, baseball is the National Pastime. Spring Training is marred this year by a death, the death of one of the greatest of them all. We must mourn Joe DiMaggio, whom they buried on Thursday. Joe DiMaggio was the New York Yankee outfielder who spans the era between Ruth and Mantle, from the Depression through the victory in world war.