Joseph Paul DiMaggio , born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr . (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), was a Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire MLB career (1936–1951) for the New York Yankees. He was also nicknamed Joltin' Joe and...
Named the "Greatest Living Player" in a 1969 centennial poll of sportswriters, baseball star Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999) took the great American pastime to new heights during his enormously successful career and epitomizes the sports heroes of the 1940s...
Joe DiMaggio is one of the few athletes who truly transcend their sport. His Hall of Fame career, leading the Yankees to nine World Series in 13 years, bridged two great eras of baseball—the post-war days of Babe Ruth and the post-integration...
Joe DiMaggio 03/09/1999: 384 words, approx. 1 pages
After he retired, Joe DiMaggio became a cultural icon who was made to stand for the imagined virtues of a vanished American era. Yogi Berra stated in plain terms the predicament of being a myth and a man at the same time. "I don't...
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Joe Dimaggio 03/09/1999: 486 words, approx. 2 pages
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-09-1999 JOE DIMAGGIO Date: 03-09-1999, Tuesday Section: OPINION Edition: All Editions -- 2 Star B, 2 Star P, 1 Star Early THE BALL must look like a grapefruit to Joe," an opposing pitcher once said of Joe DiMaggio....
The diary entry is obscure: Befitting the famously guarded personality of Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, it bears only tantalizing hints about his life as a baseball hero and husband of Marilyn Monroe.April 28, 1989: "Up at 5 a.m. ... Book people felt me out with questions...
Into the media wasteland that is the first week of January plops One Missed Call, a horror film starring Ed Burns—Mr. Christy Turlington to you, pal!—which is unworthy of even a marketing campaign (Mr. Burns is still hot, but apparently no longer making movies fit...
