Topic: Joe DiMaggio

Braves' Uggla hits in 28th straight game

Atlanta's Dan Uggla hit safely for the 28th straight game, building on Major League Baseball's best current hitting streak as he moved halfway to matching the record of legendary Joe DiMaggio.Uggla stretched his streak to 28 games with an eighth-inning single in ...

Autographed Ruth homer ball a hit at auction

The ball, autographed by the legendary New York Yankees slugger, had been passed down through three generations of a Minnesota family before being sold for more than three times what the auctioneers had estimated it would bring.Two other autographed items from the ...

Biography: Joe DiMaggio

This is no complete biography, just a moment in my life when I got to meet Joe DiMaggio in person. In various stages of dressing and gabbing were #10 Phil Rizzuto, #8 Bill Dickey, #1 Frankie Crosetti, #7 Tommy Henrich, #2 Red ...
The best way to build a winning baseball team is to put together a solid pitching staff and develop a strong defense. For example, from 1926 to 1964 the Yankees appeared in twenty five World Series and won nineteen of them. Together ...
2) Mickey Mantle- Everyone knows Mickey Mantle, as it is yet another well known household name, whether you watch baseball or not. Mickey Mantle is also in the National Baseball hall of Fame , and played Major League Baseball from 1951-1968. Joe ...
Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr., better known to the world as Joe DiMaggio was born the son of a fisherman in 1914. In his personal life however nothing could be further from the truth, DiMaggio was a troubled, cold, often callous and distant ...
In the years long before multi-million-dollar contracts and steroids, baseball super fans were the people who came out to the ballpark to cheer on the hometown heroes. If you were lucky enough to live within trolley car ride or walking distance from ...
The New York Yankees all-time home run leaders are composed of a quintet of Hall of Famers who put together their thus insurmountable totals more than half a century ago. In his first year with the Yankees, Ruth hit 54 home runs; ...
Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hit in 56 consecutive games and Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox had a batting average of .406. Ironically, when the season of 1941 began, DiMaggio and Williams were not considered superstars; Joltin' Joe ...

Dom DiMaggio

Dom DiMaggio was the younger brother of MLB Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio and a former Boston Red Sox center fielder. Former Red Sox Star (May 8, 2009) DiMaggio died at his Massachusetts home on May 8 , 2009 . Former Red ...
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