Memo to myself: never post about baseball while talking to the wife about politics.
“Clinton was another president on DiMaggio’s enemies list, Engelberg said. The baseball great detested the president for everything from Whitewater to his affair with Monica Lewinsky, the magazine reported.
Refused to Shake Clinton’s Hand
DiMaggio declined to shake Clinton’s hand when the two were at Camden Yards in Baltimore in 1995 to see Cal Ripken break Lou Gehrig’s streak of consecutive games. And when Clinton called the hospital during DiMaggio’s fatal illness, the call was not put through.”—ABC News
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“DiMaggio took special relish in snubbing the president, and in days of full health he loved to tell the story of that magical night at Camden Yards in Baltimore in September 1995 when he and Clinton were there to witness Cal Ripken as he broke Lou Gehrig’s streak of 2,130 consecutive games. An aide approached DiMaggio and asked if it would be O.K. for the president to shake his hand.
DiMaggio looked at the aide and told him no.
He had shaken Clinton’s hand once already, before he became president, and as far as he was concerned, once was enough. When the aide asked if DiMaggio might like to sit with the president for a little bit, DiMaggio said no to that too.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/09/dimaggio-200009