At both the plate and in the field, Joe DiMaggio was one of
baseball's most graceful athletes. During his thirteen seasons with
the New York Yankees, he played in ten World Series and won nine
world championships. For his career, he was a two-time batting
champion, three-time Most Valuable Player, hit 361 home runs, and
maintained a .325 batting average. His fifty-six-consecutive-game
batting streak in 1941 has yet to be broken.
DiMaggio's baseball career began in 1932 when he filled in at
shortstop at midseason for a minor league team. In 1934 he became
the property of the New York Yankees, which marked the beginning of
his road toward greatness in the nation's most famous city on one
of the most hallowed fields in the sport. Off the field, his life
was marked by a famous marriage to and divorce from Marilyn Monroe,
a late-1960s popular song, and a somewhat unhappy retirement.
On baseball's one hundredth anniversary in 1969, he was voted
the greatest living player of the game, and the Yankees erected a
plaque to him among the memorials to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. On
March 8, 1999, at the age of eighty-four, DiMaggio died after a
five-month battle with cancer.
In I Remember Joe DiMaggio, dozens of the great ballplayer's
contemporaries, teammates, coaches, fans, friends, and relatives
recall their favorite memories and anecdotes of this man who became
an icon of America. It is a warm, entertaining, and inspiring book
about a man whose fame has been the stuff of legend for more than
half a century.
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