When Joe DiMaggio died, a 57-year old man with a gray pony-tail was one of the select few allowed to attend the family funeral. He was a casket-bearer that day, his face anonymous to the national ...

By the time the lights went on again, DiMaggio had vanished. Perhaps the best insight into why DiMaggio quit came from brother Tom: "He quit because he wasn’t Joe DiMaggio any more." ...

Even in his later years, Joe DiMaggio was never ... But I told him he hadn't. My number was up." In Game 6 of the 1947 World Series, with theYankees trailing 8-5 in the sixth inning, DiMaggio ...

But Yogi topped a tame ground ball, for out number one. That brought up DiMaggio. The Stadium crowd was wailing for him. There was no Joe Page in the ... and beat the Yanks 5-1.