Profile
Joe DiMaggio
Baseball Player and Coach
Male
Born
Nov 25, 1914
Died
Mar 8, 1999
Team
New York Yankees
Position
Center fielder
Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio, nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper," was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak … Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1914
Birth
Born on November 25, 1914.
TEENAGE
1932
17 Years Old
DiMaggio was playing semi-pro ball when older brother Vince DiMaggio, playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, talked his manager into letting DiMaggio fill in at shortstop. He made his professional debut on October 1, 1932.
1933
18 Years Old
From May 27 to July 25, 1933, he got at least one hit in a PCL-record 61 consecutive games: "Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak.
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TWENTIES
After DiMaggio passed a test on his knee, he was bought on November 21 in exchange for $25,000 and five players, with the Seals keeping him for the 1935 season.
1936
21 Years Old
DiMaggio made his major league debut on May 3, 1936, batting ahead of Lou Gehrig.
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In 1939, DiMaggio was nicknamed the "Yankee Clipper" by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner.
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DiMaggio's most famous achievement is his MLB record-breaking 56-game hitting streak in 1941.
DiMaggio enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces on February 17, 1943, rising to the rank of sergeant.
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THIRTIES
1953
38 Years Old
Joe became eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953 but he was not elected until 1955.
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FORTIES
1956
41 Years Old
On August 1, 1956, an International News wire photo of DiMaggio with Lee Meriwether speculated that the couple was engaged, but Cramer wrote that it was a rumor started by Walter Winchell.
1957
42 Years Old
Monroe biographer Donald Spoto wrote that DiMaggio was "very close to marrying" 1957 Miss America Marian McKnight, who won the crown with a Marilyn Monroe act, but McKnight denied it.
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1961
46 Years Old
DiMaggio re-entered Monroe's life as her marriage to Arthur Miller was ending. On February 10, 1961, he secured her release from Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.
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1962
47 Years Old
According to Maury Allen, DiMaggio was alarmed at how Monroe had fallen in with people he felt detrimental to her well-being. He quit his job with a military post-exchange supplier on August 1, 1962, then asked her to remarry him.
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FIFTIES
1972
57 Years Old
In 1972, DiMaggio became a spokesman for The Bowery Savings Bank.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1992
77 Years Old
With the exception of a five-year hiatus in the 1980s, DiMaggio regularly made commercials for the financial institution until 1992.
1998
83 Years Old
DiMaggio, a heavy smoker for much of his adult life, was admitted to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, on October 12, 1998, for lung cancer surgery, and remained there for 99 days.
DiMaggio's funeral was held on March 11, 1999, at Sts.
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