DiMaggio double can’t dig Yanks out of trouble

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NEW YORK, May 19, 1941 — The city never sleeps, but the Yankees have been in a slumber early this season.

They snoozed through another lackluster loss on Monday afternoon, this one to the lowly last-place St. Louis Browns by a score of 5 to 1 before a quiet crowd of 5,588 fans at Yankee Stadium.

A day after pounding the Browns, the Yankees were the ones slogging through a ballgame that once again gave them a losing season’s record at 16-17 and kept them 6 1/2 games behind the first-place Cleveland Indians.

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Things started out poorly and didn’t …

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