Where Have You Gone Joe DiMaggio?

First the not-so-simple and then the simple explanation for why we can no longer have nice things in America. When Simon and Garfunkel wrote those lines, no one was more nonplussed than the great Yankee himself Joe DiMaggio. “I’m right here,” he told everyone, but he had missed the point along with many others. It’s about symbolism. In fact, I bet most of you don’t know that S&G’s working title for the song was “Mrs. Roosevelt,” and yes, it was about the former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the passing of a more innocent era. When director Mike Nichols asked the duo for permission to use their songs for his upcoming movie “The Graduate,” the songwriters rewrote the song to fit the upcoming movie. It still left them with a problem: who do we use now as a symbol for a more innocent era? Ergo, DiMaggio. Anyone who was close to Joltin’ Joe knew this man was far from a saint both on and off the baseball diamond. But it didn’t matter. What DiMaggio represented was a different America, one where the son of Sicilian immigrants (his given name was Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, trying putting that on a baseball card), could, through grit and determination, become a true American hero. <a href="https://medium.com/@gadzooks7374/where-have-you-gone-joe-dimaggio-5555d2ebccff">Visit Now</a>