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Few people can be called undisputed legends of the New York Yankees. There's Baby Ruth, above all, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, and, of course, number five, Joe DiMaggio. Although Joe DiMaggio's ...
On May 15, 1941, Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio went 1-for-4 with a run batted in against Eddie Smith and the Chicago White Sox. Fifty-six games later, on July 16, DiMaggio had hit safely in every game… ...
Game 30: June 17, 1941 ABC News was still talking about it seven decades later. Sporting News columnists from time to time write about that “single” on June 17, 1941, at Yankee Stadium ...
Joe DiMaggio’s salary of $100 thousand in 1949-1950 would be worth about $1.23 million in 2023 after adjusting for inflation. ... When divided by the total number of minutes a year, ...
DiMaggio singled, Charlie Keller doubled, Bill Dickey drew a walk, and Joe Gordon hit his own double. The Yankees won the game 7-4 and then closed out the series the next day with a Game 5 win.
Joe DiMaggio was in the midst of a nasty little slump when he took the field on May 15, 1941. ... and DiMaggio reached that number that ties so closely to his name: No. 56.
Joe DiMaggio only ever asked one person to sign a baseball for him — Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, the Yankee Clipper was invited by the Reagan White House to a state dinner honoring the Russian ...