Joseph Paul DiMaggio (born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "the Yankee Clipper", and "Joe D.", was an American ...
How do you write “The Yankee Clipper” in Cyrillic? Turns out Russians are almost as fascinated with legendary baseball player Joe DiMaggio as Americans. The 2017 book “Dinner with DiMaggio” by ...
It was often said of Joe DiMaggio that the reason he played so hard on the baseball field—even when his knees were blown out, his feet were infected, his back was seizing up, and he was running a ...
Eyed through the lens of statistics, the DiMaggio diamond doesn’t reveal its true brilliance. His .325 lifetime batting average is impressive, but it doesn’t compare with that of Ty Cobb’s (.366) or ...
A policeman walks into a bar in 1954, and a lifelong friendship develops with the Michael Jordan of that era Three generations of the Rolovich family with Joe DiMaggio outside Buscati's circa 1988: ...
Paige, a black baseball player who was a renowned pitcher well before the days of Jackie Robinson, wasn’t permitted to play in the major leagues. But his reputation was such that when the Yankees ...