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SPORTS
It was at the end of her adolescence that Marilyn was the most active.
James Dougherty took her skiing, horse-riding, hiking, swimming and doing canoë-kayak. She also went fishing with him at Sherwood Lake (Ventura County).
Badminton
At the end of the 50's, in summer, she played badminton and tennis with Patricia Rosten, daughter of her friends Hedda and Norman Rosten.
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Base-ball
Publicity 1951
She made a publicity picture with Gus Zernial and Joe Dobson, players of the Chicago White Socks, at the White Sox Training Camp, Pasadena, California, in 1951.
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She saw Joe DiMaggio playing for the first time on March 17, 1952, during the game of the Hollywood Stars versus the first division of the All-Stars, for the benefit of the Kiwanis Club for Children. It was the only time she saw him playing.
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On September 15, 1952,
Marilyn attended a base-ball game given in a charity purpose, the
"Out of This World Series Charity Base-ball Game", at the Gilmore Field Stadium of Los
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During their wedding, she accompanied Joe several times to the Yankee Stadium where he worked as a sportscaster.
In 1961
they went back there to watch a game; this same year, she also followed
Joe to the spring training camp of the Yankees, in Florida:
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Her last public appearance took place at the Los Angeles Dodger Stadium, on June 1st 1962, for a game to the benefit of the Muscular Dystrophy. She was accompanied with Wally Cox and Dean Martin's son.
This day, she tossed the ball.
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Dance
1949, preparation for "Love happy" :
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Horse-riding
She did horse-riding with Jim Dougherty at the beginning of the 40's. She even rode the famous Roy Rogers's mount, Trigger, in 1946, in Las Vegas.
With Arthur Miller, they bought a horse, Ebony, who lived in Roxbury. But she rarely rode it.
Soccer
She tossed the ball of a soccer game between the USA and Israel, on May 12, 1957, in Ebbet's Field, New York.
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But she hit the ball so strongly that she sprained 2 toes. This injury didn't prevent her from staying until the end of the game and from presenting the trophy to the winning team captain.
Golf
At the end of the 40's, while she was going through a difficult patch, she would have agreed
to serve as caddy to the golfer Joe Kirkwood Jr:
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Marilyn's work, scantily dressed, summed up in giving him the small white ball.
Caddy at the Cheviot Hill Country Club of Los Angeles in 1947.
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Bodybuilding
In 1943 while she was living with Jim Dougherty in Catalina Island, she began to train with weights.
A picture of her, published in Life magazine, in 1952, shows her exercising with bars :
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A daily 45 mn training was part of the working program she did for several years.
Swimming
She would have learned to swim when she was at the Los Angeles orphanage.
In the first biograophies of the studio, swimming was part of her interests.
On everybody's opinions, she hardly swam in her pool of her house of 5th Helena Drive.
Tennis
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