- Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio, was an Italian American baseball player for the New York Yankees.
- Joe Dimaggio was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.
- Joe DiMaggio was a 3-time MVP winner and 13-time All-Star (the only player to be selected for the All-Star Game in every season he played).
- In his thirteen year career, the Yankees won ten pennants and nine world championships.
- Joe Dimaggio is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15–July 16, 1941), a record that still stands.
- Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak was stopped by Cleveland pitcher Jim Bagby Jr., son of former big league pitcher Jim Bagby. In the minor leagues, DiMaggio had a 61-game hitting streak stopped by Ed Walsh Jr., son of Hall of Fame right-hander Ed Walsh.
- DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California.
- Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut on May 3, 1936, batting ahead of Lou Gehrig.
- On September 13, 1946, Yankee Joe DiMaggio belted a home run to defeat the Detroit Tigers and eliminate them from the pennant race. His homer gave the pennant to the Boston Red Sox. BoSox players Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, and Tex Hughson sent DiMaggio a telegram in Detroit, which said: "Thanks a lot for that home run, pal!"
- Joe DiMaggio was nicknamed the "Yankee Clipper" by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald in 1939 when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then new Pan American airliner.
- On February 7, 1949, DiMaggio became the first baseball player to break $100,000 in earnings.
- Joe DiMaggio told Baseball Digest in 1963 that the Brooklyn Dodgers had offered him their managerial job in 1953, but he turned it down.
- Joe DiMaggio enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces on February 17, 1943, rising to the rank of sergeant.
- According to her autobiography, Marilyn Monroe originally did not want to meet DiMaggio, fearing he was a stereotypical arrogant athlete.
- Joe DiMaggio, a heavy cigarette smoker throughout his life, was admitted to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, on October 12, 1998, for lung cancer surgery and remained there for the next 99 days.
- At his death in 1999, the New York Times called DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941, "perhaps the most enduring record in sports".
Joe DiMaggio quotes
"A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues".
"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues".
"All pitchers are born pitchers".
"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example".
