Number 5 for the Yankees 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 ...

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… ...

How much did Joe DiMaggio make in a minute? Joe DiMaggio's last reported contract was $100 thousand annually. When divided by the total number of minutes a year, this comes to about 19 cents per ...

‘I Love Lucy’ star played matchmaker between Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio: author Joel Brokaw, the son of late Hollywood talent agent Norman Brokaw, has written a new book, Driving Marilyn ...

Joe DiMaggio was already baseball’s biggest star when the streak began. He’d won the previous two batting titles. He’d won the 1939 MVP convincingly over Jimmie Foxx and Feller.

Yankees-Dodgers World Series history: Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Reggie Jackson and more magical moments The two teams have faced each other in the World Series a record 11 times before this ...

DiMaggio knocked in all the Yankees runs in a 6-5 victory in Cleveland. A Yankees press release in 1951 said that in DiMaggio's 13 seasons, newspaper stories estimated his salaries totaled $646,250.

Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio only ever asked one person to sign a baseball, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died at the age of 91.

THE VERDICT is now in on baseball great Joe DiMaggio. As Richard Ben Cramer's mammoth new biography, "Joe DiMaggio, the Hero's Life," makes abundantly clear, the character of the Yankee Clipper ...

It’s been over 70 years since Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio tied the knot on Jan. 14, 1954. Here’s a look back at their love affair while it lasted.