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This
photo dating to January 28, 1958 shows Don after the latest surgery to
repair his six-time broken nose. At the time Don was still a member
of the Cincinnati Redlegs organization, and it would be another year and
a half before he met Jill. That does not mean that he was not already
smitten. Later in 1958, he hired a bus to take his team mates from
the Cincinnati Redlegs to a drive-in theater to see Jill in Senior
Prom, Jill's movie that was released by Columbia Pictures that
year. Click here to
read much more about Don's most unusual courtship techniques. |
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This
photo, widely circulated by the Associated Press, shows Jill and Don as
they apply for their marriage license in Pittsburgh on December 21, 1961. |
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A
picture of the couple sharing their first kiss following their marriage
on December 27, 1961 in Pittsburgh
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Jill
accompanied Don to the Pittsburgh Pirates spring training camp in Fort
Meyers, Florida for the first time in 1962. |
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By
1963, Don was playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, and the couple made
their home for a time in the City of Brotherly Love. Jill regularly
attended the Phillies games there, usually sitting as close to third base
as possible. |
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While
Jill systematically began to curtail her own public career after her marriage,
she still had certain contractual obligations to fulfill beyond 1961.
Here Don sits admiring his bride as she rehearses for her next engagement. |
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Don
and Jill stop at the Harwyn Club in New York, where Jill had been on earlier
dates with several show business celebrities including Frank Sinatra. |
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Jill
accompanied Don to spring training in Florida for the first time in 1962.
Click on the image of Don at left and see several more pictures of Don
during spring training that year and throughout his career in baseball. |
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In
1979, Bob Shank in his Scrapbook column in the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette retold the story of Jill, Don and Don's untimely death
in 1969. Along with the story was this picture taken that happy day
in 1961 when the couple were married. |
