Dimaggio, Joe (1914-1999)
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...
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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 ca...
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This book was a very interesting book. The Dimaggios were a very poor Italian immigrant family. Then Joe makes over a million dollars in his career and he came from such a poor family. All...
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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...
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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 marketi...
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Nov 15 (Reuters) - U.S. baseball home-run king Barry Bonds
was indicted by a federal grand jury on perjury and obstruction
of justice charges in connection with a probe into allegations
of steroid...
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Today is Thursday, March 8, the 67th day of 2007. There are 298 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 8, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Me...
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Eric Stults allowed two hits and struck out nine over seven innings after getting recalled from Triple-A, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 Friday night.Stults (1-1) allowed...
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The New York Mets' lead is gone, leaving them on the brink of a historic collapse. The free-falling Mets managed just three hits off Joel Pineiro and Jason Isringhausen in a 3-0 loss to the St. Lou...
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Alex Rodriguez did his part to keep the New York Yankees in contention for the AL East title. Rodriguez hit his 54th homer, drove in four runs and scored twice Friday night against the Baltimore Or...
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Alex Rodriguez raised his major league-leading RBIs total to 156, Jorge Posada took over from Joe Torre as manager for the day and the New York Yankees prepped for the playoffs by beating the Balti...
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NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Slugger Alex Rodriguez won the
American League Most Valuable Player award for the third time in
five years in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of
America ...
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While Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. try for perfection, Mark McGwire takes a most imperfect past into Hall of Fame balloting.Gwynn and Ripken likely will vie for the highest percentages ever in Hal...
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