Joe DiMaggio 1968 Tamarac Country Club Score Card

by John Letter
(Tamarac Florida)

Tamarac Country Club is about a half a mile west of Ft. Lauderdale Yankee Stadium... or at least it was in 1968 when the Yankees had spring training there. I was 12 years old at the time and my father, who also worked nearby, was having a drink in the clubhouse lounge when he saw Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle enjoying a drink. He approached them and asked Joe if he would give his son an autograph. Joe obliged and wrote on a scorecard "to John, best wishes, Joe DiMaggio. My father who is 86 now regrets to this day that he didn't get the Mick to sign it also.