March: Joe’s older brother Vince makes the ... July: At Boston’s old Braves Field, DiMaggio becomes the first rookie ever to play in an All-Star game. October: In his rookie season, DiMaggio ...

When Joe DiMaggio died, a 57-year old man with a gray pony-tail was one of the select few allowed to attend the family funeral. He was a casket-bearer that day, his face anonymous to the national ...

Joe DiMaggio? "A nation turns its lonely eyes to you." Earlier, Ernest Hemingway had turned to the Yankee Clipper when he sought a symbol. In his novel The Old Man and the Sea, the old man says ...

Joe DiMaggio, the elegant Yankee Clipper whose ... fishing," the ancient Cuban fisherman says in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as ...

was a 19-year-old rookie batting .260. Pitching 28 games with the Yankees from 1951-55, eight as a starter, his teammates included some franchise greats beyond Mantle: Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra ...

SCP Auctions is selling a bat used by DiMaggio during the 1941 season and attributed to Game 1 of the World Series, with ...

Betty Bonney, a singer who was a favorite of jitterbuggers and other musical hepcats of the swing era with hit recordings such as “Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio ... known 19-year-old Doris Day ...

As DiMaggio piled up hits — from mid-May to mid-July — a New York City disc jockey, Alan Courtney, and the band’s arranger, Ben Homer, wrote a jaunty tune, “Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio ...