Joe DiMaggio

Joe DiMaggio
Center fielder
Born: (1914-11-25)November 25, 1914 Martinez, California
Died: March 8, 1999(1999-03-08) (aged 84) Hollywood, Florida
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
May 3, 1936 for the New York Yankees
Last MLB appearance
September 30, 1951 for the New York Yankees
Career statistics
Batting average	.325
Hits	2,214
Home runs	361
Runs batted in	1,537
Teams
New York Yankees (1936–1942, 1946–1951)
Career highlights and awards
13× All-Star (1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951) 9× World Series champion (1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951) 3× AL MVP (1939, 1941, 1947) MLB record 56-game hitting streak New York Yankees #5 retired Major League Baseball All-Century Team
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1955
Vote	88.84% (third ballot: first eligible in 1953)

Seven of the American League's 1937 All-Star players, from left to right Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg. All seven would eventually be elected to the Hall of Fame.

Giuseppe Paulo "Joe" DiMaggio (pronounced /dɨˈmɑʒioʊ/ or /dɨˈmædʒioʊ/; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands.^[1] DiMaggio was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.

A three-time MVP winner and 13-time All-Star, DiMaggio is the only player to be selected for the All-Star Game in every season he played. During his thirteen years with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships.

At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken in the baseball centennial year of 1969.^[2]

His brothers Vince and Dom also became major league center fielders.

Early life

DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California, the eighth of nine children born to immigrants from Italy, Giuseppe (1872–1949) and Rosalia (Mercurio) DiMaggio (1878–1951). He was delivered by a midwife identified on his birth certificate as Mrs. J. Pico. He was named after his father; "Paolo" was in honor of Giuseppe's favorite saint, Saint Paul. The family moved to San Francisco, California, when Joe was a year old.

Giuseppe was a fisherman, as were generations of DiMaggios before him. According to statements from Joe's brother Tom to biographer Maury Allen, Rosalia's father wrote to her with the advice that Giuseppe could earn a better living in California than in their native Isola delle Femmine, an Italian town in North-Western Sicily, administratively part of the province of Palermo.

After being processed on Ellis Island, Giuseppe worked his way across America, eventually settling near Rosalia's father in Pittsburg, California. After four years, he earned enough money to send for Rosalia and their daughter, who was born after he had left for the United States.

Giuseppe hoped that his five sons would become fishermen.^[3] DiMaggio recalled that he would do anything to get out of cleaning his father's boat, as the smell of dead fish nauseated him. Giuseppe called him "lazy" and "good for nothing".

DiMaggio was playing semi-pro ball when older brother Vince DiMaggio, playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, talked his manager into letting DiMaggio fill in at shortstop. He made his professional debut on October 1, 1932.

From May 27 to July 25, 1933, he got at least one hit in a PCL-record 61 consecutive games:^[4] "Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping."

In 1934, his career almost ended. Going to his sister's house for dinner, he tore ligaments in his left knee while stepping out of a jitney.

The Seals had hoped to sell DiMaggio's contract for $100,000. Scout Bill Essick of the New York Yankees was convinced that Joe could overcome his knee injury and pestered the club to give DiMaggio another look. After DiMaggio passed a test on his knee, he was bought on November 21 in exchange for $25,000 and five players, with the Seals keeping him for the 1935 season. He batted .398 with 154 RBIs and 34 HRs, led the Seals to the 1935 PCL title, and was named the League's Most Valuable Player.

"The Yankee Clipper"

DiMaggio made his major league debut on May 3, 1936, batting ahead of Lou Gehrig. The Yankees had not been to the World Series since 1932, but they won the next four Fall Classics. In total, DiMaggio led the Yankees to nine titles in 13 years.^[5]

In 1939, DiMaggio was nicknamed the "Yankee Clipper" by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner.^[6]

He was pictured with his son on the cover of the inaugural issue of SPORT magazine in September, 1946.^[7] In 1947, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for Ted Williams, but MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra.^[8]

In the September 1949 issue of SPORT magazine, Hank Greenberg said that DiMaggio covered so much ground in center field that the only way to get a hit against the Yankees was "to hit 'em where Joe wasn't." DiMaggio also stole home five times in his career.

On February 7, 1949, DiMaggio signed a record contract worth $100,000 ($977,000 in current dollar terms) ($70,000 plus bonuses), and became the first baseball player to break $100,000 in earnings. After a poor 1951 season, a scouting report by the Brooklyn Dodgers that was turned over to the New York Giants and leaked to the press, and various injuries, DiMaggio announced his retirement on December 11, 1951.^[9] When remarking on his retirement to the Sporting News on December 19, 1951, he said

"I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches and pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game, and so, I've played my last game."

Joe DiMaggio's number 5 was retired by the New York Yankees in 1952.

Through May 2009, DiMaggio was tied with Mark McGwire for third place all-time in home runs over the first two calendar years in the major leagues (77), behind Phillies Hall of Famer Chuck Klein (83), and Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun (79).^[10]

Through 2011, he was one of seven major leaguers to have had at least four 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons in their first five years, along with Chuck Klein, Ted Williams, Ralph Kiner, Mark Teixeira, Albert Pujols, and Ryan Braun.^[11]

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DiMaggio in 1951.

He might have had better power-hitting statistics had his home park not been Yankee Stadium. As "The House That Ruth Built", its nearby right field favored the Babe's left-handed power. For right-handed hitters, its deep left and center fields made home runs almost impossible. Mickey Mantle recalled that he and Whitey Ford witnessed many DiMaggio blasts that would have been home runs anywhere other than Yankee Stadium. (Ruth himself fell victim to that problem, as he also hit many long fly outs to center). Bill James calculated that DiMaggio lost more home runs due to his home park than any other player in history. Left-center field went as far back as 457 ft [139 m], where left-center rarely reaches 380 ft [116 m] in today's ballparks. Al Gionfriddo's famous catch in the 1947 World Series, which was close to the 415-foot mark [126 m] in left-center, would have been a home run in the Yankees current ballpark. DiMaggio hit 148 home runs in 3,360 at-bats at home versus 213 home runs in 3,461 at-bats on the road. His slugging percentage at home was .546, and on the road, it was .610. Expert statistician, Bill Jenkinson, made a statement on these statistics:

DiMaggio's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

For example, Joe DiMaggio was acutely handicapped by playing at Yankee Stadium. Every time he batted in his home field during his entire career, he did so knowing that it was physically impossible for him to hit a home run to the half of the field directly in front of him. If you look at a baseball field from foul line to foul line, it has a 90-degree radius. From the power alley in left center field (430 in Joe's time) to the fence in deep right center field (407 ft), it is 45-degrees. And Joe DiMaggio never hit a single home run over the fences at Yankee Stadium in that 45-degree graveyard. It was just too far. Joe was plenty strong; he routinely hit balls in the 425-foot range. But that just wasn't good enough in cavernous Yankee Stadium. Like Ruth, he benefited from a few easy homers each season due to the short foul line distances. But he lost many more than he gained by constantly hitting long fly outs toward center field. Whereas most sluggers perform better on their home fields, DiMaggio hit only 41 percent of his career home runs in the Bronx. He hit 148 homers at Yankee Stadium. If he had hit the same exact pattern of batted balls with a typical modern stadium as his home, he would have belted about 225 homers during his home field career.

Joe became eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953 but he was not elected until 1955. The Hall of Fame rules on the post-retirement induction waiting period had been revised in the interim, extending the waiting period from one to five years, but DiMaggio and Ted Lyons were exempted from the rule. DiMaggio told Baseball Digest in 1963 that the Brooklyn Dodgers had offered him their managerial job in 1953, but he turned it down. After being out of baseball since his retirement as a player, Joe became the first hitting instructor of the newly relocated Oakland Athletics from 1968 to 1970.

Hitting streak

DiMaggio kisses his bat in 1941.

DiMaggio's most famous achievement is his MLB record-breaking 56-game hitting streak in 1941. The streak began on May 15, 1941, when DiMaggio went one-for-four against Chicago White Sox pitcher Eddie Smith.^[12] Major newspapers began to write about DiMaggio's streak early on, but as he approached George Sisler's modern era record of 41 games, it became a national phenomenon. Initially, DiMaggio showed little interest in breaking Sisler's record, saying "I'm not thinking a whole lot about it... I'll either break it or I won't."^[13] As he approached Sisler's record, DiMaggio showed more interest, saying, "At the start I didn't think much about it... but naturally I'd like to get the record since I am this close."^[14] On June 29, 1941, DiMaggio doubled in the first game of a doubleheader against the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium to tie Sisler's record, and then singled in the nightcap to extend his streak to 42.^[15][16]

A Yankee Stadium crowd of 52,832 fans watched DiMaggio tie the all-time hitting streak record (44 games, Wee Willie Keeler in 1897) on July 1.^[17] The next day against the Boston Red Sox, he homered into Yankee Stadium's left field stands to extend his streak to 45, setting a new record. DiMaggio recorded 67 hits in 179 at-bats during the first 45 games of his streak, while Keeler recorded 88 hits in 201 chances.^[18] DiMaggio continued hitting after breaking Keeler's record, reaching 50 straight games on July 11 against the St. Louis Browns.^[19] On July 17 at Cleveland Stadium, DiMaggio's streak was finally snapped at 56 games, thanks in part to two backhand stops by third baseman Ken Keltner.^[20] DiMaggio batted .408 during the streak, with 15 home runs and 55 RBI.^[21] The day after the streak ended, DiMaggio started another streak that lasted 17 games. The distinction of hitting safely in 73 of 74 games is also a record.^[22][23]

Today, DiMaggio's streak is considered a uniquely outstanding and unbreakable record;^[24] the closest anyone has ever come to equaling DiMaggio since 1941 was Pete Rose, who hit in 44 straight games in 1978.^[25][26]

Wartime

DiMaggio enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces on February 17, 1943, rising to the rank of sergeant. He was stationed at Santa Ana, California, Hawaii, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a physical education instructor. He was released on medical discharge in September 1945, due to chronic stomach ulcers.^[27] Giuseppe and Rosalia DiMaggio were among the thousands of German, Japanese and Italian immigrants classified as "enemy aliens" by the government after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan. They carried photo ID booklets at all times, and were not allowed to travel outside a five-mile radius from their home without a permit. Giuseppe was barred from the San Francisco Bay, where he had fished for decades, and his boat was seized. Rosalia became an American citizen in 1944, followed by Giuseppe in 1945.^[27]

Married life

Dorothy Arnold

In January 1937, DiMaggio met actress Dorothy Arnold on the set of Manhattan Merry-Go-Round, in which he had a minor role and she was an extra. They married at San Francisco's St. Peter and Paul Church on November 19, 1939, as 20,000 well-wishers jammed the streets. Their son, Joseph Paul DiMaggio III, was born at Doctors Hospital on October 23, 1941.^[28]

Marilyn Monroe

Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe staying at Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on their honeymoon.

According to her autobiography, Marilyn Monroe originally did not want to meet DiMaggio, fearing that he was a stereotypical arrogant athlete. They eloped at San Francisco City Hall on January 14, 1954.

DiMaggio biographer Richard Ben Cramer asserts that their marriage was filled with "violence".^{[citation needed]} One typical forceful incident occurred immediately after the skirt-blowing scene in The Seven Year Itch which was filmed on September 14, 1954, in front of New York's Trans-Lux Theater. Then-20th Century Fox's East Coast correspondent Bill Kobrin told the Palm Springs Desert Sun that it was Billy Wilder's idea to turn the shoot into a media circus. The couple then had a "yelling battle" in the theater lobby.^[29] A month later, she filed for divorce on grounds of mental cruelty 274 days after the wedding.

On August 1, 1956, an International News wire photo of DiMaggio with Lee Meriwether speculated that the couple was engaged, but Cramer wrote that it was a rumor started by Walter Winchell. Monroe biographer Donald Spoto wrote that DiMaggio was "very close to marrying" 1957 Miss America Marian McKnight, who won the crown with a Marilyn Monroe act, but McKnight denied it.^[30] He was also linked to Liz Renay, Cleo Moore, Rita Gam, Marlene Dietrich, and Gloria DeHaven during this period, and to Elizabeth Ray and Morgan Fairchild years later, but he never publicly confirmed any involvement with any woman.

DiMaggio re-entered Monroe's life as her marriage to Arthur Miller was ending. On February 10, 1961, he secured her release from Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. She joined him in Florida where he was a batting coach for the Yankees. Their "just friends" claim did not stop remarriage rumors from flying. Reporters staked out her apartment building. Bob Hope "dedicated" Best Song nominee "The Second Time Around" to them at the 33rd Academy Awards.

According to Maury Allen, DiMaggio was alarmed at how Monroe had fallen in with people he felt detrimental to her well-being. He quit his job with a military post-exchange supplier on August 1, 1962, then asked her to remarry him. She was found dead on August 5. DiMaggio's son, Joe Jr., had spoken to Monroe on the phone the night of her death and claimed that she seemed fine.^[31] Her death was deemed a probable suicide but has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. Devastated, he claimed her body and arranged her funeral, barring Hollywood's elite. He had a half-dozen red roses delivered three times a week to her crypt for 20 years.^[32] He refused to talk about her publicly or otherwise exploit their relationship. He never married again.

Advertising

In the 1970s, DiMaggio became a spokesman for Mr. Coffee and would be the face of the electric coffee makers for over 20 years. In 1972, DiMaggio became a spokesman for The Bowery Savings Bank. With the exception of a five-year hiatus in the 1980s, DiMaggio regularly made commercials for the financial institution until 1992.^[33]

Death

DiMaggio's grave

DiMaggio, a heavy smoker for much of his adult life, was admitted to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, on October 12, 1998, for lung cancer surgery, and remained there for 99 days.^[34] He returned to his Florida home on January 19, 1999, where he died on March 8.

DiMaggio's funeral was held on March 11, 1999, at Sts. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco.^[35] DiMaggio's son died that August at age 57.^[36] DiMaggio is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.

Sports legacy

At his death, the New York Times called DiMaggio's 1941 56-game hitting streak "perhaps the most enduring record in sports".^[32]

DiMaggio's monument in Monument Park.

In an article in 1976 in Esquire magazine, sportswriter Harry Stein published an "All Time All-Star Argument Starter," consisting of five ethnic baseball teams. Joe DiMaggio was the center fielder on Stein's Italian team.

On September 17, 1992, the doors were opened at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, for which he raised over $4,000,000.^[32]

On April 13, 1998, DiMaggio was given the Sports Legend Award at the 13th annual American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame Awards Dinner in New York City. Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and a longtime fan of DiMaggio’s, made the presentation to the Yankee great. The event was one of DiMaggio’s last public appearances before taking ill.

Yankee Stadium's fifth monument was dedicated to DiMaggio on April 25, 1999, and the West Side Highway was officially renamed in his honor. The Yankees wore DiMaggio's number 5 on the left sleeves of their uniforms for the 1999 season. He is ranked No. 11 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and he was elected by fans to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In addition to his number 5 being retired by the New York Yankees, DiMaggio's number is also retired by the Florida Marlins, who retired it in honor of their first team president, Carl Barger, who died five months before the team took the field for the first time in 1993. DiMaggio had been his favorite player.

An auction of DiMaggio's personal items was held by the adopted daughters of DiMaggio's son in May 2006. Highlights included the ball hit to break Wee Willie Keeler's hitting-streak record ($63,250); his 2,000th career hit ball ($29,900); his 1947 Most Valuable Player Award ($281,750); the uniform worn in the 1951 World Series ($195,500); his Hall of Fame ring ($69,000); a photograph Marilyn autographed "I love you Joe" ($80,500); her passport ($115,000); and their marriage certificate ($23,000). The event netted a total of $4.1 million.

On August 8, 2011, the United States Postal Service announced that DiMaggio will appear on a stamp for the first time. It will be issued as part of the "Major League Baseball All-Star stamp series", coming out in July, 2012.^[37]

In popular culture

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DiMaggio and Ronald Reagan at the White House, 1981

DiMaggio's popularity during his career was such that he was referenced in film, television, literature, art, and music both during his career and decades after he retired.

Art

• Pierre Bellocq's "Canvas of Stars" mural for Gallagher's Steak House (2006)^[38]
• Robert Casilla's "Joe DiMaggio: The Continuity of Greatness" giclee^[39]
• Devon Dikeou's "Marilyn Monroe Wanted to be Buried in Pucci" installation (2008)^[40]
• Harvey Dinnerstein's "The Wide Swing" (1979) sold at auction for $95,000^[41]
• Curt Flood's painting of DiMaggio sold at auction for $9,500^[42]
• Bart Forbes's illustration of DiMaggio for the July 1999 Boy's Life
• Zenos Frudakis's bronze sculpture of DiMaggio for the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital^[43]
• Bill Gallo drew DiMaggio for the New York Daily News; a caricature of DiMaggio and Ted Williams sold at auction for $750^[44]
• Red Grooms's "Joltin' Joe Takes a Swing" installation (1985–1988)^[45]
• Stephen Holland's giclee "Joe DiMaggio" (2005)
• Armand LaMontagne's 1991 giclee of DiMaggio sold at auction for $325^[46]
• Tommy McDonald's paintings of DiMaggio sold at auction for $4,000,^[47] and $2,300^[41]
• Willard Mullin's 1936 drawing of DiMaggio sold at auction for $2,600^[44]
• LeRoy Neiman's painting "Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees" (1969), mixed media "Joe DiMaggio, San Francisco Seals" (1989), and painting "The DiMaggio Cut" (1998)
• Bruce Stark's caricature of DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle sold at auction for $700^[48]
• Mark Ulriksen's illustration of DiMaggio for the cover of the April 12, 1999 The New Yorker
• Susan Dorothea White's "The Crowning with Sexism" (1994), DiMaggio appears behind Marilyn Monroe

Comics/graphic novels

DiMaggio in 1950.

• DC Comics' 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso:
  • "The Counterfifth Detective", DiMaggio is recruited by Graves for the Minutemen^[49]
  • "Idol Chatter", the former baseball player befriended by Graves is based on DiMaggio^[50]
• Harvey Comics' Babe Ruth Sports Comics (August 1949)^[51]
• Parents' Magazine's True Comics #71 (May 1948)^[52]
• Revolutionary Comics' "Baseball Legends: Joe DiMaggio" (July 1992)^[53]

Literature

• "Buck Wischnewski" is based on him in Alvah Bessie's novel The Symbol
• "The Athlete" is based on him in Joyce Carol Oates's novel Blonde
• "The Old Man And The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway makes repeated references to "the great DiMaggio."
• Hanoch Piven's What Athletes are Made Of, 2006, features Joe DiMaggio (ISBN 1-4169-1002-6).

Music

• Billy Bragg and Woody Guthrie's "DiMaggio Done It Again".
• Les Brown & His Band of Renown's "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio".^[54]
• Bon Jovi's "Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars" references DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe.
• Mike Plume's "DiMaggio".
• Dan Bern's "Wasteland".
• Abie Rotenberg's "The Great Joe DiMaggio's Card".
• Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" asks "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio"; DiMaggio later complained about this, saying he had not gone anywhere. However this complaint was retracted when DiMaggio met with Paul Simon and was told the meaning behind the lyric.^[55]
• Kinky Friedman's "Marilyn & Joe" references DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe.
• Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start The Fire".
• John Fogerty's song "Centerfield" Joe DiMaggio's name is used.
• Tori Amos's song "Father Lucifer" in which Joe and Marilyn are referenced. "Did Joe bring flowers to Marilyn's grave"
• Rodgers and Hammerstein's song "Bloody Mary" from the stage musical "South Pacific" 1949 had the lyrics "her skin is tender as DeMaggio's glove".

Movies

• In Paddy Chayefsky's cinema release The Goddess, the character of "Dutch Seymour" is based on him in, played by Lloyd Bridges.
• In the cinema release Insignificance, the character of "The Ballplayer" is based on him, played by Gary Busey.
• In the TV movie "61*" (2001), he is portrayed by Michael Nouri
• In the TV movie "The Rat Pack" (1998), he is portrayed by John Diehl
• In the TV movie "Norma Jean & Marilyn", he is portrayed by Peter Dobson
• In the TV movie "Marilyn & Me" (1991), he is portrayed by Sal Landi
• In the TV movie "Marilyn: The Untold Story" (1980), he is portrayed by Frank Converse
• In the cinema release, Wonder Boys: the character of James steals the jacket that Marilyn Monroe wore the day she married DiMaggio. The jacket belonged to the character of Walter Gaskell, who is obsessed with the DiMaggio-Monroe marriage.

Television

• In the ESPN mini-series drama, "The Bronx Is Burning", about the 1977 World Series, he is played by Christopher McDonald.
• In the TV Series "Blonde" (2001), he is played by Titus Welliver (as The Baseball Player).
• The TV series, Smash, is centred around a fictional Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, which features DiMaggio as a central character.
• He is referenced in Frasier: "Room Full of Heroes", when Martin dresses as DiMaggio, his boyhood hero.
• He is referenced in I Love Lucy: "Lucy is Enceinte", when Fred gives Lucy a baseball signed by DiMaggio.
• He is referenced in Mad Men: "Six Month Leave", when Hollis tells Peggy and Don that he is thinking of DiMaggio in the wake of Monroe's death.
• In a sketch from Saturday Night Live, (Season 26, Episode 4), Jimmy Fallon plays DiMaggio and Charlize Theron plays Monroe.
• In a sketch from Second City Television, (Series 4, Cycle 3–9), Bill Murray plays DiMaggio in a faux commercial "DiMaggio's on the Wharf" with Eugene Levy as Dom DiMaggio, and Martin Short as Vince DiMaggio.
• He is referenced in Seinfeld: "The Note", when Kramer insists to Jerry, George, and Elaine that DiMaggio patronizes Dinky Donuts.
• He is referenced in The Simpsons: "'Tis the Fifteenth Season", when Mr. Burns gives Homer a DiMaggio rookie card.
• He is referenced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "If Wishes Were Horses", when Sisko's favorite player breaks DiMaggio's hitting streak. record^[56]

Further reading

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• Jerome Charyn. Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil (Yale University Press; 2011) 192 pages; scholarly biography
• Kostya Kennedy. "56 Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports" (Sports Illustrated Books; 2011) 367 pages
• SPORT magazine, September 1946

References

External links

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• Joe DiMaggio at the Internet Movie Database
• PBS.org documentary on DiMaggio
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