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." ...

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 ...

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.