Editing Joe DiMaggio

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{{Infobox baseball biography 
|name=Joe DiMaggio
|image=1939 Playball Joe Dimaggio (minus halftone).jpg
|caption=DiMaggio with the New York Yankees in 1939
|position=[[Center fielder]]
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{birth date|1914|11|25}}
|birth_place=[[Martinez, California]], U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1999|3|8|1914|11|25}}
|death_place=[[Hollywood, Florida]], U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=May 3
|debutyear=1936
|debutteam=New York Yankees
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 30
|finalyear=1951
|finalteam=New York Yankees
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.325
|stat2label=[[Hit (baseball)|Hits]]
|stat2value=2,214
|stat3label=[[Home run]]s
|stat3value=361
|stat4label=[[Run batted in|Runs batted in]]
|stat4value=1,537
|teams=
'''As player'''
* [[New York Yankees]] ({{mlby|1936}}–{{mlby|1942}}, {{mlby|1946}}–{{mlby|1951}})
'''As coach'''
* [[Oakland Athletics]] ({{mlby|1968}}–{{mlby|1969}})
|highlights=
* 13× [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] ([[1936 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1936]]–[[1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1942]], [[1946 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1946]]–[[1951 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1951]])
* 9× [[World Series champion]] ({{wsy|1936}}–{{wsy|1939}}, {{wsy|1941}}, {{wsy|1947}}, {{wsy|1949}}–{{wsy|1951}})
* 3× [[AL MVP]] (1939, 1941, 1947)
* 2× [[List of Major League Baseball batting champions|AL batting champion]] (1939, 1940)
* 2× [[List of Major League Baseball annual home run leaders|AL home run leader]] (1937, 1948)
* 2× [[List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders|AL RBI leader]] (1941, 1948)
* MLB record 56-game [[hitting streak]]
* [[New York Yankees#Retired numbers|New York Yankees No. 5]] retired
* [[Monument Park (Yankee Stadium)|Monument Park]] honoree
* [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]]
|hoflink = National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
|hoftype = National
|hofdate=[[1955 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|1955]]
|hofvote=88.8% (fourth ballot) 
|module = {{Infobox military person
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|allegiance = [[United States]] 
|branch = [[United States Army Air Forces]] 
|rank = [[Sergeant]] 
|serviceyears = 1943–1945 
}}}}
'''Joseph Paul DiMaggio''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ə|ˈ|m|ɑː|dʒ|i|oʊ}}; born '''Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio''', {{IPA|it|dʒuˈzɛppe ˈpaːolo diˈmaddʒo|lang}}; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "'''Joltin' Joe'''", "'''the Yankee Clipper'''" and "'''Joe D.'''", was an American professional [[baseball]] [[center fielder]] who played his entire 13-year career in [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) for the [[New York Yankees]]. Born to [[Italian Americans|Italian immigrants]] in California, he is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time and set the record for the [[Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak|longest hitting streak]] (56 games from May 15 – July 16, 1941).<ref name="Arbesman-Strogatz 2008">{{Cite news | last1 = Arbesman | first1 = Samuel | last2 = Strogatz | first2 = Steven | author2-link = Steven Strogatz | title = A Journey to Baseball's Alternate Universe | newspaper = The New York Times | date = March 30, 2008 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/opinion/30strogatz.html | access-date = February 9, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170630144311/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/opinion/30strogatz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | archive-date = June 30, 2017 | url-status = live }}</ref>

DiMaggio was a three-time [[American League]] (AL) [[MLB Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player Award]] winner and an [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine [[World Series]] championships. His nine career World Series rings are second only to fellow Yankee [[Yogi Berra]], who won 10.

At the time of his retirement after the 1951 season, he ranked fifth in career [[home run]]s (361) and sixth in career [[slugging percentage]] (.579). He was inducted into the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in 1955 and was voted the sport's [[Major League Baseball Centennial All-Time Teams#All-Time "Living" Team|greatest living player]] in a poll taken during baseball's centennial year of 1969.<ref name="greatest">{{cite magazine |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1016425/index.htm |title=Hank Or Ted Or Willie Or...:Who's the best living ballplayer now that Joe DiMaggio's gone? |last=Callahan |first=Gerry |date=July 19, 1999 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |access-date=September 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203134746/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1016425/index.htm |archive-date=February 3, 2014 }}</ref> His brothers [[Vince DiMaggio|Vince]] (1912–1986) and [[Dom DiMaggio|Dom]] (1917–2009) also were major league center fielders. Outside of baseball, DiMaggio is also widely known for his marriage and life-long devotion to [[Marilyn Monroe]].

== Early life ==
Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio was born on November 25, 1914, in [[Martinez, California]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-08-me-63765-story.html | title=Joe DiMaggio Jr.; Son of Yankees Baseball Legend Led Troubled Life | work=Los Angeles Times | date=August 8, 1999 | access-date=February 14, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819054218/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-08-me-63765-story.html | archive-date=August 19, 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref> the eighth of nine children born to [[Italians|Italian]] immigrants Giuseppe and Rosalia DiMaggio, from [[Isola delle Femmine]] ([[Sicily]]). His Italian birth name was Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio. Rosalia named her son "Giuseppe" after his father in the hopes he would be her last child; "Paolo" was in honor of Giuseppe's favorite saint, [[Paul of Tarsus]].

Giuseppe was a [[fishing industry|fisherman]], as were generations of DiMaggios before him. DiMaggio's brother Tom told [[Maury Allen]] that Rosalia's father wrote to her saying Giuseppe could earn a better living in California. Giuseppe and Rosalia decided that he would go to the United States for one year: if things were better, he would send for her; if not, he would return home. After being processed on [[Ellis Island]], Giuseppe worked his way across the country, eventually settling near Rosalia's father in [[Pittsburg, California|Pittsburg]], on the east side of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]]. After four years, he had earned enough money to send for Rosalia and their daughter, who was born after he left. When Joe was a toddler, Giuseppe moved his family to the [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] section of [[San Francisco]].<ref name="Cramer2000" />{{rp|18}} Giuseppe hoped that his five sons would become fishermen.<ref>{{cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Larry |url=https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00014151.html |title=Joltin' Joe was a hit for all reason |work=[[ESPN]] |access-date=March 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205205545/http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014151.html |archive-date=February 5, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

DiMaggio recalled that he would do anything to get out of cleaning his father's boat, as the smell of dead fish nauseated him. Giuseppe called him "lazy" and "good-for-nothing". At age ten, he took up baseball, playing third base at the North Beach playground near his home. After attending Hancock Elementary and Francisco Middle School, DiMaggio dropped out of [[Galileo Academy of Science and Technology|Galileo High School]] and worked odd jobs.<ref>{{cite book|author-link1=Murry R. Nelson|last1=Nelson|first1=Murry R.|title=American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [4 Volumes]: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas|date=2013|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313397530|page=347|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfTXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA347 |access-date=March 21, 2017|language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Joe DiMaggio SF Seals.jpeg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|A [[baseball card]] of DiMaggio with the [[San Francisco Seals (baseball)|San Francisco Seals]], {{circa|1933–36}}]]
By 1931, DiMaggio was playing semi-pro ball. Nearing the end of the 1932 season, his brother [[Vince DiMaggio|Vince]], playing for the [[San Francisco Seals (PCL)|San Francisco Seals]] of the [[Pacific Coast League]] (PCL), talked his manager into letting DiMaggio fill in at [[shortstop]]. He made his professional debut on October 1, 1932, playing the last three games. In less than two years, DiMaggio made the jump from the playground to the PCL, one notch below the majors.<ref name="Cramer2000" />{{rp|34}} In his full rookie year, from May 27 to July 25, 1933, he [[hit (baseball)|hit]] safely in 61 consecutive games, a PCL-record,<ref>{{cite book |title=Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures |year=2008 |edition=2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatbaseballfea00davi/page/210 210] |first1=David |last1=Nemec |first2=Scott |last2=Flatow |series=A Signet Book |publisher=Penguin Group |location=New York |isbn=978-0-451-22363-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/greatbaseballfea00davi/page/210 }}</ref> and second-longest in [[Minor League Baseball]] history.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kramer |first=Daniel |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/indians-prospect-francisco-mejias-hit-streak/c-192043120 |title=Mejia's epic streak ends, then extends to 50: Official scorer changes controversial error call after game to keep run alive for Indians prospect |work=[[MLB.com]] |date=August 12, 2016 |access-date=August 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202180205/https://www.mlb.com/news/indians-prospect-francisco-mejias-hit-streak/c-192043120 |archive-date=February 2, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> "Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak," he said. "Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking, or sleeping.”

In 1934, DiMaggio suffered a potentially career-threatening knee injury when he tore [[ligament]]s of his right knee while stepping out of a [[Share taxi#United States|jitney]]. Convinced the injury would heal, Yankees scout [[Bill Essick]] pestered his bosses to give DiMaggio another look. After he passed a physical, the team bought him for $50,000 and five players, with the Seals keeping him for the 1935 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/history/timeline2.jsp|title=Yankees Timeline|work=New York Yankees|access-date=September 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906014545/http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/history/timeline2.jsp|archive-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> DiMaggio [[batting average (baseball)|batted]] .398 with 154 [[runs batted in]] (RBIs) and 34 home runs. The Seals won the 1935 PCL title, and he was named the league's Most Valuable Player.

== Professional career ==
=== New York Yankees (1936–1942, 1946–1951) ===
[[File:1937 all stars crop FINAL2.jpg|thumb|Seven of the American League's [[1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1937 All-Star players]]: [[Lou Gehrig]], [[Joe Cronin]], [[Bill Dickey]], Joe DiMaggio, [[Charlie Gehringer]], [[Jimmie Foxx]], and [[Hank Greenberg]]. All seven would eventually be elected to the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Fame]].]]

DiMaggio made his Major League debut on May 3, 1936, batting ahead of [[Lou Gehrig]] in the lineup. The Yankees had not been to the [[World Series]] since [[1932 World Series|1932]], but they won the next four World Series. Over the course of his 13-year Major League career, DiMaggio led the Yankees to nine World Series championships, where he trails only [[Yogi Berra]] (10) in that category.<ref>Kennedy, Kostya, "The Streak", ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', March 14, 2011, pp. 60–67 (Excerpted from ''56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports'', 2011, Sports Illustrated Books).</ref>

DiMaggio set a franchise record for rookies in 1936 by hitting 29 home runs. DiMaggio accomplished the feat in 138 games.<ref name=judge>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19910006/aaron-judge-passes-joe-dimaggio-most-home-runs-new-york-yankees-rookie|title=Aaron Judge passes Joe DiMaggio for most Yankee rookie home runs|first=Andrew|last=Marchand|date=July 8, 2017|access-date=July 8, 2017|work=ESPN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709030024/http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/19910006/aaron-judge-passes-joe-dimaggio-most-home-runs-new-york-yankees-rookie|archive-date=July 9, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> His record stood for over 80 years until it was shattered by [[Aaron Judge]], who tallied 52 homers in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-honored-for-rookie-home-run-record-c257009592|title=Judge honored by Yanks for rookie HR record|website=MLB.com|access-date=July 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721110803/https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-honored-for-rookie-home-run-record-c257009592|archive-date=July 21, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1937, DiMaggio built upon his rookie season by leading the majors with 46 home runs, 151 runs scored, and 418 total bases. He also hit safely in 43 of 44 games from June 27 to August 12.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?t=b&id=dimagjo01&year=1937|title=Joe DiMaggio 1937 Batting Game Logs|website=[[Baseball-Reference.com]]|accessdate=January 7, 2022}}</ref> He finished second in American League MVP voting in a close race with [[Charlie Gehringer]] of the [[Detroit Tigers]].

In 1939, DiMaggio was nicknamed "the Yankee Clipper" by Yankee's play-by-play announcer [[Arch McDonald]], when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new [[Pan American World Airways|Pan American]] airliner.<ref name=Cramer2000>{{cite book|title=Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life|author=Richard Ben Cramer|date=2000|publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0684853914}}</ref>{{rp|152}} That year in August, DiMaggio recorded 53 RBIs, tying [[Hack Wilson]]'s 1930 record for most in a single month.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/baseball-s-greatest-offensive-streaks-c286932052|title=The 27 greatest offensive runs in MLB history|first=David|last=Adler|website=[[MLB.com]]|date=May 24, 2020|accessdate=January 7, 2022}}</ref> He also won his first career batting title and MVP award, as well as leading the Yankees to their fourth consecutive World Series championship.<ref>{{cite news|title=DiMaggio Voted Most Valuable Player in American League|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|page=31|date=October 25, 1939}}</ref>

DiMaggio was pictured with his son on the cover of the inaugural issue of [[Sport (US magazine)|''SPORT'' magazine]] in September 1946.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesportgallery.com/products/covers/1946_sept.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414005729/http://www.thesportgallery.com/products/covers/1946_sept.html|url-status=dead|title=''SPORT'' magazine, September 1946|archive-date=April 14, 2010|access-date=July 21, 2019}}</ref>

In 1947, DiMaggio won his third MVP award and his sixth World Series with the Yankees. That year, Boston Red Sox owner [[Tom Yawkey]] and Yankees GM [[Larry MacPhail]] verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for [[Ted Williams]], but the trade was canceled when MacPhail refused to include [[Yogi Berra]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/page2/s/list/baseballrumors.html |work=ESPN.com |title=The List: Baseball's biggest rumors |page=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226121114/http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/baseballrumors.html |archive-date=February 26, 2011}}.</ref>

In the September 1949 issue of ''SPORT'', [[Hank Greenberg]] said that DiMaggio covered so much ground in center field that the only way to get a hit against the Yankees was "to hit 'em where Joe wasn't." DiMaggio also stole home five times in his career.

On February 7, 1949, DiMaggio signed a contract worth $100,000 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|100000|1949|r=-4}}}} in current dollar terms) ($70,000 plus bonuses), and became the first baseball player to break $100,000 in earnings.{{Citation needed|reason=Where was this information gathered? How many seasons was the contract for?|date=May 2024}} By 1950, he was ranked the second-best center fielder by the ''Sporting News'', after [[Larry Doby]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.phillytrib.com/baseballarticles/item/3550-baseball-great-doby-receives-postage-stamp.html|title=Baseball Great Doby Receives Postage Stamp|last=Hunt|first=Donald|date=April 5, 2012|access-date=July 14, 2012|publisher=PhillyTrib.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409104049/http://www.phillytrib.com/baseballarticles/item/3550-baseball-great-doby-receives-postage-stamp.html|archive-date=April 9, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> After a poor 1951 season, various injuries, and a scouting report by the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] that was turned over to the [[New York Giants (NL)|New York Giants]] and leaked to the press, DiMaggio announced his retirement at age 37 on December 11, 1951.<ref>{{Cite news |title=DiMaggio Retires as Player but Expects to Remain in Yankee Organization |author=John Drebinger |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 12, 1951 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf |page=63}}</ref> When remarking on his retirement to the ''Sporting News'' on December 19, 1951, he said:

[[File:Joe DiMaggio 1951.png|thumb|left|upright=0.75|DiMaggio in 1951, his last year in baseball]]
<blockquote>I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches and pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game, and so, I've played my last game.</blockquote>

Through May 2009, DiMaggio was tied with [[Mark McGwire]] for third place all-time in home runs over the first two calendar years in the major leagues (77), behind [[Phillies]] [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Fame]]r [[Chuck Klein]] (83), and [[Milwaukee Brewers]]' [[Ryan Braun]] (79).<ref>[https://nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=1633915 Sandler, Jeremy, "NL Weekly: The Notebook", ''National Post'', May 27, 2009, accessed 5/28/09].{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Through 2011, he was one of seven major leaguers to have had at least four 30-[[Home run|homer]], 100-RBI seasons in their first five years, along with Chuck Klein, [[Ted Williams]], [[Ralph Kiner]], [[Mark Teixeira]], [[Albert Pujols]], and Ryan Braun.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110917&content_id=24822414&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb|title=Fascinating facts from Friday's games|work=Major League Baseball|access-date=September 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107084948/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110917&content_id=24822414&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb|archive-date=November 7, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> DiMaggio holds the record for most seasons with more home runs than [[strikeouts]] (minimum 20 home runs), a feat he accomplished seven times, and five times consecutively from 1937 to 1941.<ref>{{cite web|title=More Homers than Strikeouts in a Season by Baseball Reference|publisher=baseball-reference.com|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10091|access-date=September 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006091436/http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10091|archive-date=October 6, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> DiMaggio could have possibly exceeded 500 home runs and 2,000 RBIs had he not served in the military during [[World War II]], causing him to miss the 1943, 1944, and 1945 seasons.<ref name="bullock2004">{{cite book | title=Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military during World War II | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Bullock, Steven R. | pages=100–102, 127 | year=2004 | isbn=0-8032-1337-9}}</ref>

DiMaggio might have had better power-hitting statistics had his home park not been [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]]. In "The House That Ruth Built", its nearby right field favored the Babe's left-handed power. For right-handed hitters, its deep left and center fields made home runs almost impossible. [[Mickey Mantle]] recalled that he and [[Whitey Ford]] witnessed many DiMaggio blasts that would have been home runs anywhere other than Yankee Stadium (Ruth himself fell victim to that problem, as he also hit many long flyouts to center). [[Bill James]] calculated that DiMaggio lost more home runs due to his home park than any other player in history. Left-center field went as far back as 457&nbsp;ft [139&nbsp;m], whereas left-center rarely reaches 380&nbsp;ft [116&nbsp;m] in today's ballparks. [[Al Gionfriddo]]'s famous catch in the [[1947 World Series]], which was close to the 415-foot mark [126&nbsp;m] in left-center, just in front of the visitors bullpen, would have been a home run in the Yankees' current ballpark and most other ballparks at that time, except perhaps the Polo Grounds, home of the New York Giants. DiMaggio hit 148 home runs in 3,360 at-bats at home versus 213 home runs in 3,461 at-bats on the road. His slugging percentage at home was .546, and on the road, it was .610. Statistician Bill Jenkinson commented on these figures:

[[File:Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle 1970.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|DiMaggio and [[Mickey Mantle]] at [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] in 1970, two years after Mantle's retirement]]
<blockquote>
For example, Joe DiMaggio was acutely handicapped by playing at Yankee Stadium. Every time he batted in his home field during his entire career, he did so knowing that it was physically impossible for him to hit a home run to the half of the field directly in front of him. If you look at a baseball field from foul line to foul line, it has a 90-degree radius. From the power alley in the left-center field (430 in Joe's time) to the fence in the deep right-center field (407 ft), it is 45 degrees. And Joe DiMaggio never hit a single home run over the fences at Yankee Stadium in that 45-degree graveyard. It was just too far. Joe was plenty strong; he routinely hit balls in the 425-foot range. But that just wasn't good enough in the cavernous Yankee Stadium. Like Ruth, he benefited from a few easy homers each season due to the short foul line distances. But he lost many more than he gained by constantly hitting long flyouts toward center field. Whereas most sluggers perform better on their home fields, DiMaggio hit only 41 percent of his career home runs in the Bronx. He hit 148 homers at Yankee Stadium. If he had hit the same exact pattern of batted balls with a typical modern stadium as his home, he would have belted about 225 homers during his home-field career.
</blockquote>

DiMaggio became eligible for the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in 1953 but he was not elected until 1955. The Hall of Fame rules on the post-retirement induction waiting period had been revised in the interim, extending the waiting period from one to five years, but DiMaggio and [[Ted Lyons]] were exempted from the rule. DiMaggio told ''[[Baseball Digest]]'' in 1963 that the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] had offered him their managerial job in 1953, but he turned it down. After being out of baseball since his retirement as an active player, DiMaggio joined the newly relocated [[Oakland Athletics]] as a vice president in [[1968 Oakland Athletics season|1968]] and [[1969 Oakland Athletics season|1969]] and a [[coach (baseball)|coach]] in just the first of those two seasons. The appointment allowed him to qualify 
for MLB's maximum [[pension]] allowance of which he had fallen two years short upon his retirement. During his only campaign as a coach, he helped improve the talents of players such as [[Reggie Jackson]], [[Sal Bando]], and [[Joe Rudi]] who became part of the team's nucleus which won three consecutive World Series in 1972, 1973, and 1974.<ref>[https://www.mlb.com/news/joe-dimaggio-as-oakland-a-s-coach Castrovince, Anthony. "How DiMaggio wound up in an A's uniform," MLB.com, Tuesday, December 21, 2021.] Retrieved December 22, 2021</ref>

After he resigned from the Athletics, DiMaggio was named the acting manager for the East team in the [[East-West Major League Baseball Classic]] which was held in honor of the late [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], raising charity money for King's causes.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Verducci |first1=Tom |title=The Greatest (Forgotten) Game Ever Played: MLB's 1970 Exhibition to Honor MLK |url=https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/01/18/martin-luther-king-day-baseball-hall-of-fame |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=January 18, 2021}}</ref>

=== 1941 hitting streak ===
{{Main|Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak}}
{{Quote box|width=20em|bgcolor=|align=right|quote=DiMaggio's streak is the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports.|source= — Stephen Jay Gould{{r|gould19880818}}}}
[[File:Joe DiMaggio salutes his bat.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.75|DiMaggio kisses his bat in 1941, the year he hit safely in 56 consecutive games. His wife [[Dorothy Arnold (actress)|Dorothy Arnold]] was pregnant with their son Joe Jr. while the streak was in progress.]]

DiMaggio's most famous achievement is his MLB record-breaking 56-game [[hitting streak]] in 1941. The streak began on May 15, a couple of weeks before the death of [[Lou Gehrig]]—who had been DiMaggio's teammate from 1936 to 1939—when DiMaggio went one-for-four against Chicago White Sox pitcher [[Eddie Smith (pitcher)|Eddie Smith]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Joe DiMaggio Hitting Streak by Baseball Almanac|publisher=baseball-almanac.com|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats3.shtml|access-date=August 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822150951/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats3.shtml|archive-date=August 22, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Major newspapers began to write about DiMaggio's streak early on, but as he approached [[George Sisler]]'s modern-era record of 41 games, it became a national phenomenon. Initially, DiMaggio showed little interest in breaking Sisler's record, saying: "I'm not thinking a whole lot about it... I'll either break it or I won't."<ref>{{cite news |title=Joe DiMaggio 7 Games away from Batting Record |date=June 22, 1941 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tsA0AAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio%20streak%20sisler&pg=7048%2C3787940 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |work=St. Petersburg Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908210053/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tsA0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=a00DAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio%20streak%20sisler&pg=7048%2C3787940 |archive-date=September 8, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> As he approached Sisler's record, DiMaggio showed more interest, saying, "At the start, I didn't think much about it... but naturally I'd like to get the record since I am this close."<ref>{{cite news |title=Joe DiMaggio Taking Interest in Hit Streak |date=June 27, 1941 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s3pHAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio%20streak%20sisler&pg=1845%2C5085196 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |work=Meriden Record}}</ref> On June 29, 1941, DiMaggio doubled in the first game of a doubleheader against the [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] at [[Griffith Stadium]] to tie Sisler's record and then singled in the nightcap to extend his streak to 42.<ref>{{cite news |last=Talbot |first=Gayle |title=Yankees Keep Pace with Joe in Homer Derby |date=June 30, 1941 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IjYuAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio%20streak%20sisler&pg=3015%2C6820498 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |work=The Miami News }}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Retrosheet Boxscore: New York Yankees 9, Washington Senators 4 (1)|publisher=retrosheet.org|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1941/B06291WS11941.htm|access-date=August 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904050544/http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1941/B06291WS11941.htm|archive-date=September 4, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

A Yankee Stadium crowd of 52,832 fans watched DiMaggio tie the all-time hitting streak record (44 games, [[Wee Willie Keeler]] in 1897) on July 1.<ref>{{cite news |last=Daley |first=Arthur |title=Yankee Star Hits 44th Game in Row |date=July 2, 1941 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/07/02/archives/yankee-star-hits-44th-game-in-row-dimaggio-bats-safely-in-two.html |access-date=August 14, 2011 |work=[[The New York Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723212639/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/07/02/archives/yankee-star-hits-44th-game-in-row-dimaggio-bats-safely-in-two.html |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> The next day against the [[Boston Red Sox]], he homered into Yankee Stadium's left-field stands to extend his streak to 45, setting a new record. DiMaggio recorded 67 hits in 179 at-bats during the first 45 games of his streak, while Keeler recorded 88 hits in 201 at-bats.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bailey |first=Judson |title=DiMaggio's Home Run Tops Keeler's Record |date=July 3, 1941 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7vUuAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio%20keeler&pg=4157%2C435492 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |work=Ottawa Citizen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629224001/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7vUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4dsFAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio%20keeler&pg=4157%2C435492 |archive-date=June 29, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> DiMaggio continued hitting after breaking Keeler's record, reaching 50 straight games on July 11 against the St. Louis Browns.<ref>{{cite news |last=Boni |first=Bill |title=DiMaggio Runs Hitting Streak to 50 Straight |date=July 12, 1941 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zAMsAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio%20streak%2050&pg=1355%2C386422 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |work=Times Daily |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630034100/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zAMsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GroEAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio%20streak%2050&pg=1355%2C386422 |archive-date=June 30, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> On July 17 at Cleveland's [[Cleveland Stadium|Municipal Stadium]], DiMaggio's streak was finally snapped at 56 games, thanks in part to two backhand stops by [[Cleveland Indians|Indians]] third baseman [[Ken Keltner]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Hauck |first=Larry |title=Two Ordinary Hurlers End DiMaggio's Streak |date=July 18, 1941 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aCBkAAAAIBAJ&dq=dimaggio's%20streak&pg=3282%2C2125007 |access-date=August 14, 2011 |work=The Calgary Herald}}</ref> DiMaggio batted .408 during the streak with 15 home runs and 55 RBI.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats3.shtml | title=Joe DiMaggio Hitting Streak by Baseball Almanac | publisher=[[Baseball Almanac]] | access-date=August 7, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822150951/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats3.shtml | archive-date=August 22, 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The day after the streak ended DiMaggio started another streak that lasted 16 games, therefore hitting safely in 72 of 73 games.<ref>{{cite web | title=Does Ted Williams Own A More Impressive Streak Than Joe DiMaggio? | first=Cam | last=Martin | publisher=ThePostGame.com | date=July 13, 2011 | url=http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201107/does-ted-williams-own-more-impressive-streak-joe-dimaggio | access-date=August 14, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810025448/http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201107/does-ted-williams-own-more-impressive-streak-joe-dimaggio | archive-date=August 10, 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>''Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records'', p.5, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, {{ISBN|978-1-55365-507-7}}</ref> The closest anyone has come to equaling DiMaggio is [[Pete Rose]], who hit safely in 44 straight games in 1978.<ref>{{cite web | title=Baseball's unbreakable record | first=Jayson | last=Stark | author-link=Jayson Stark | date=May 15, 2011 | publisher=ESPN | url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=6539812 | access-date=February 15, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908210025/https://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=6539812 | archive-date=September 8, 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=DiMaggio's hit streak still appears unbreakable|publisher=sports.yahoo.com|date=May 11, 2011|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ys-rcs_top_10_unbreakable_streaks_in_sports_051011|access-date=August 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623222432/http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ys-rcs_top_10_unbreakable_streaks_in_sports_051011|archive-date=June 23, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> During the streak, DiMaggio played in seven doubleheaders. The Yankees' record during the streak was 41–13–2.

Some consider DiMaggio's streak [[List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable|a uniquely outstanding and unbreakable record]] and a statistical near-impossibility. [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]]-winning physicist and [[sabermetrician]] [[Edward Mills Purcell]] calculated that, to have the likelihood of a hitting streak of 50 games occurring in the history of baseball up to the late 1980s be greater than 50%, fifty-two .350 lifetime hitters would have to have existed instead of the actual three ([[Ty Cobb]], [[Rogers Hornsby]], and [[Shoeless Joe Jackson]]). His [[Harvard University|Harvard]] colleague [[Stephen Jay Gould]], citing Purcell's work, called DiMaggio's 56-game achievement "the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports".<ref name=gould19880818>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1988/08/18/the-streak-of-streaks/ | title=The Streak of Streaks | first=Stephen Jay | last=Gould | author-link=Stephen Jay Gould | date=August 18, 1988 | magazine=[[The New York Review of Books]] | url-access=subscription | access-date=February 15, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215095341/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1988/08/18/the-streak-of-streaks/ | archive-date=February 15, 2020 | url-status=live }}</ref> Samuel Arbesman and [[Steven Strogatz]] of [[Cornell University]] disagree. They conducted 10,000 computer simulations of Major League Baseball from 1871 to 2005, 42% of which produced streaks as long or longer, with record streaks ranging from 39 to 109 games and typical record streaks between 50 and 64 games.<ref name="Arbesman-Strogatz 2008"/>

== World War II ==
DiMaggio enlisted in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] on February 17, 1943, rising to the rank of sergeant. He was stationed at [[Santa Ana, California]], Hawaii, and [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], as a physical education instructor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/baseball/7925101/Joe-DiMaggio-made-a-poor-soldier-military-records-show.html|title=Joe DiMaggio made a poor soldier, military records show|first=Tom|last=Leonard|date=August 3, 2010|access-date=July 21, 2019|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226111301/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/baseball/7925101/Joe-DiMaggio-made-a-poor-soldier-military-records-show.html|archive-date=February 26, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> He was released on a medical discharge in September 1945, due to chronic stomach ulcers.<ref name=Icon>{{cite book|last=The New York Daily News|title=Joe DiMaggio: an American icon|pages=83, 96, 100|year=1999|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|isbn=1-58261-037-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FcOFhZ3_BPsC&q=Joe%20DiMaggio%3A%20an%20American%20icon&pg=PA83|access-date=February 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103061026/http://books.google.com/books?id=FcOFhZ3_BPsC&lpg=PP1&dq=Joe%20DiMaggio%3A%20an%20American%20icon&pg=PA83|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Other than being paid $21 a month, DiMaggio's service was as comfortable as a soldier's life could be. He spent most of his military career playing for baseball teams and in exhibition games against fellow Major Leaguers and minor league players, and superiors gave him special privileges due to his prewar fame. DiMaggio ate so well from an athlete-only diet that he gained 10 pounds, and while in Hawaii he and other players mostly tanned on the beach and drank. Embarrassed by his lifestyle, DiMaggio requested that he be given a combat assignment but was turned down.{{r|bullock2004}}

=== Parents as "enemy aliens" ===
Giuseppe and Rosalia DiMaggio, both from [[Isola delle Femmine]], were among the thousands of German, Japanese, and Italian immigrants classified as "[[enemy aliens]]" by the government after the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]]. Each was required to carry photo ID booklets at all times and was not allowed to travel outside a five-mile radius from their home without a permit. Giuseppe was barred from [[San Francisco Bay]], where he had fished for decades, and his boat was seized. Rosalia became an American citizen in 1945, followed by Giuseppe in 1946.<ref name="Icon"/>

== Marriages ==
=== Dorothy Arnold ===
In January 1937, DiMaggio met actress [[Dorothy Arnold (actress)|Dorothy Arnold]] on the set of ''[[Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (film)|Manhattan Merry-Go-Round]]'', in which he had a minor role, and she was an extra. He announced their engagement on April 25, 1939, just before the Yankees were to meet the [[Philadelphia Athletics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Fr8DH2VBP9sC&dat=19390426&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |title=A's Are Held to Eight Hits |newspaper=The Montreal Gazette |date=April 26, 1939 |page=18 |via=Google News Archive}}</ref> They married at [[Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco]] on November 19, 1939, as 20,000 well-wishers jammed the streets. The couple's son, Joseph Paul DiMaggio Jr. (1941–1999), was born at [[Doctors' Hospital (Staten Island)|Doctors' Hospital]] in Staten Island.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/03/08/NEWS8438.dtl |title=Joe DiMaggio 1914–1999 |work=San Francisco Examiner |date=March 9, 1999 |access-date=August 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050401080623/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fexaminer%2Farchive%2F1999%2F03%2F08%2FNEWS8438.dtl |archive-date=April 1, 2005}}</ref> Their marriage was troubled, as Arnold wanted DiMaggio to settle down and be a father to their son and a nearby husband to her; DiMaggio was more interested in the public eye.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gaffney |first=Dennis |title=Joe DiMaggio Jr. |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dimaggio-joe-dimaggio-jr/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=[[PBS]] |language=en}}</ref> The couple divorced in 1944, while DiMaggio was on leave from the Yankees during World War II.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

=== Marilyn Monroe ===
[[File:Marilyn Monroe Joe DiMaggio January 1954.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|DiMaggio with wife [[Marilyn Monroe]], January 1954]]
According to her autobiography ''My Story'', co-written with [[Ben Hecht]],<ref>[http://www.cursumperficio.net/CD/NJ/Pap/Oth/CBHecht1.jpg "'My Story' Contract" (March 16, 1954)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101753/http://www.cursumperficio.net/CD/NJ/Pap/Oth/CBHecht1.jpg |date=December 24, 2017 }} ''cursumperficio.net'' June 6, 2017</ref> American actress [[Marilyn Monroe]] originally did not want to meet DiMaggio, fearing he was a stereotypically arrogant athlete. However, they did meet in [[Los Angeles]] while on a [[blind date]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Alexandra |first=Rae |date=January 10, 2023 |title=How Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio's Tumultuous Marriage Began in San Francisco |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13922524/marilyn-monroe-joe-dimaggio-san-francisco-city-hall-wedding-1954 |access-date=June 11, 2024 |website=www.kqed.org |language=en}}</ref> After dating for two years,<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine |date=2014-01-14 |title=Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio: The End of a Marriage, 1954 |url=https://www.life.com/people/tearful-photos-from-the-day-marilyn-divorced-dimaggio-in-1954/ |access-date=June 11, 2024 |magazine=LIFE |language=en-US}}</ref> they eloped at [[San Francisco City Hall]] on January 14, 1954.<ref name=":0" /> Although she suffered from [[endometriosis]], Monroe and DiMaggio each expressed to reporters their desire to start a family.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Widjojo |first=Conchita |date=July 28, 2022 |title=Inside Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio's Tumultuous Relationship That Took an Unexpected Turn |url=https://wwd.com/feature/marilyn-monroe-joe-dimaggio-relationship-details-1235264615/ |access-date=June 12, 2024 |website=WWD |language=en-US}}</ref>

The union was troubled from the start by DiMaggio's jealousy, controlling attitude, and him physically abusing Monroe,{{sfnm|1a1=Spoto|1y=2001|1pp=208, 222–223, 262–267, 292|2a1=Churchwell|2y=2004|2pp=243–245|3a1=Banner|3y=2012|3pp=204, 219–221}} as well as her busy life as an actress.<ref name=":3" /> A violent fight entailing physical assault between the couple occurred immediately after Monroe filmed the skirt-blowing scene in ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]'' that was filmed on September 14, 1954, in front of Manhattan's Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theater, as DiMaggio disapproved of the scene.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/sep/15/marilyn-monroe-seven-year-itch-dress|title='That silly little dress': the story behind Marilyn Monroe's iconic scene|first=Anne T.|last=Donahue|newspaper=The Guardian |date=September 15, 2014|access-date=July 21, 2019|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806121617/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/sep/15/marilyn-monroe-seven-year-itch-dress|archive-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Then [[20th Century Fox]]'s [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] correspondent Bill Kobrin told the ''[[The Desert Sun|Palm Springs Desert Sun]]'' that it was director [[Billy Wilder]]'s idea to turn the shoot into a media circus. Monroe and DiMaggio then had a "yelling battle" in the theater lobby.<ref>{{cite news|title=Meet Marilyn Monroe photographer Saturday |url=http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/UPDATE/60626018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213031710/http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060626%2FUPDATE%2F60626018 |archive-date=December 13, 2007 |first=Denise |last=Goolsby |newspaper=The Desert Sun |date=June 26, 2006 |access-date=August 25, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After returning from [[New York City]] to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] in October 1954, Monroe filed for divorce from DiMaggio after only nine months of marriage.{{sfnm|1a1=Summers|1y=1985|1pp=103–105|2a1=Spoto|2y=2001|2pp=290–295|3a1=Banner|3y=2012|3pp=224–225}} However, she was devastated to leave DiMaggio, and throughout the procedures in court, she could be seen weeping openly.<ref name=":1" />

DiMaggio was also devastated, and wrote to Monroe, saying, "I love you and want to be with you…There is nothing I would like better than to restore your confidence in me…My heart split even wider seeing you cry in front of all those people."<ref name=":0" /> He also wrote, “[I don't] know what your thoughts are about me, but I can tell you I love you sincerely — way deep in my heart, irregardless of anything."<ref name=":0" /> After the divorce, DiMaggio underwent [[therapy]], stopped drinking alcohol, and expanded his interests beyond baseball.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/50-things-you-didnt-know-about-marilyn-monroe-20120803-23kew.html | title=50 things you didn't know about Marilyn Monroe | first=Horatia | last=Harrod | date=August 3, 2012 | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | access-date=February 14, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215075525/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/50-things-you-didnt-know-about-marilyn-monroe-20120803-23kew.html | archive-date=February 15, 2020 | url-status=live }}</ref>

On August 1, 1956, an International News [[wire photo]] of DiMaggio with [[Lee Meriwether]] gave rise to speculation that they were engaged, but DiMaggio biographer [[Richard Ben Cramer]] wrote that it was a rumor started by columnist [[Walter Winchell]]. Monroe biographer [[Donald Spoto]] claimed that DiMaggio was "very close to marrying" [[List of Miss America titleholders|1957 Miss America]] [[Marian McKnight]], who won the crown with a Marilyn Monroe act, but McKnight denied it.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hartsvillemessenger.com/Lifestyles/050520_lifestyles4.php |title=South Carolina's first Miss America, Marian McKnight |newspaper=The Hartsville Messenger |date=May 20, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060529094422/http://www.hartsvillemessenger.com/Lifestyles/050520_lifestyles4.php |archive-date=May 29, 2006 }}</ref> He was also linked to [[Liz Renay]], [[Cleo Moore]], [[Rita Gam]], [[Marlene Dietrich]], and [[Gloria DeHaven]] during this period, and years later to [[Elizabeth Ray]] and [[Morgan Fairchild]], but he never publicly confirmed any involvement with any woman.

[[File:Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe and Tstsuzo Inumaru.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.9|DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe staying at [[Imperial Hotel, Tokyo|Imperial Hotel]] in Tokyo on their [[honeymoon]]]]
DiMaggio re-entered Monroe's life as her marriage to [[Arthur Miller]] was ending. On February 10, 1961, he secured her release from [[Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic]] in [[Manhattan]]. She joined him in [[Florida]] where he was a batting coach for the [[New York Yankees|Yankees]]. Their "just friends" claim did not stop remarriage rumors from flying. Reporters staked out her Manhattan apartment building. [[Bob Hope]] "dedicated" [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]] nominee "[[High Time (film)|The Second Time Around]]" to them at the [[33rd Academy Awards]]. In one of her last interviews, given to [[Redbook]] magazine and published in August 1962, Monroe explained : "I've always been able to count on Joe as a friend after that first bitterness of our parting faded. Believe me, there is no spark to be kindled. I just like being with him and we have a better understanding than we've ever had." <ref>{{Cite news |last=Levy |first=Alan |date=August 1962 |title=Marilyn Monroe : a good, long look at myself |work=Redbook Magazine |pages=76}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Liz |title=Marilyn — 50 years dead but more alive than ever! |url=https://eu.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2012/08/06/marilyn-8212-50-years-dead/49478691007/ |website=Telegram & Gazette}}</ref>

On August 5, 1962, Monroe was [[Death of Marilyn Monroe|found dead]] in her [[Brentwood, Los Angeles]] home after her housekeeper [[Eunice R. Murray]] telephoned Monroe's psychiatrist, [[Ralph Greenson]]. DiMaggio's son had spoken to Monroe on the phone the night of her death and said she seemed fine.<ref>{{cite magazine | last1=Huber | first1=Robert | date=June 1999 | title=Joe DiMaggio Would Appreciate It Very Much If You'd Leave Him the Hell Alone | magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]}}</ref> Her death was deemed a probable suicide by "Coroner to the Stars" [[Thomas Noguchi]]. It has also been the subject of [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]].

The funeral service was arranged by DiMaggio, Monroe's half-sister [[Berniece Baker Miracle]], and Monroe's business manager Inez Melson.{{sfnm|1a1=Spoto|1y=2001|1pp=594–597|2a1=Banner|2y=2012|2pp=427–428}} He barred Hollywood's elite and members of the [[Kennedy family]] from attending the funeral, including President [[John F. Kennedy]]. He had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week for 20 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marriages — The Official Site of Joe DiMaggio |url=https://www.joedimaggio.com/the-man/marriages/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=JoeDiMaggio.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=NYTobit>{{cite news |last=Durso |first=Joseph |title=Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper, Dies at 84 |date=March 9, 1999 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/09/sports/joe-dimaggio-yankee-clipper-dies-at-84.html |access-date=May 25, 2009 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203163318/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/09/sports/joe-dimaggio-yankee-clipper-dies-at-84.html?scp=2&sq |archive-date=February 3, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Oftentimes, he refused to talk about her publicly or otherwise exploit their relationship, and in the rare moments when he did speak to reporters, he was unable to hold back tears. He never married again.<ref name=":0" />

According to DiMaggio's attorney Morris Engelberg, DiMaggio's last words were "I'll finally get to see Marilyn."<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100802&page=1|title=Report: DiMaggio's Final Words|access-date=September 8, 2014|work=ABC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112194212/https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100802&page=1|archive-date=November 12, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Though DiMaggio's brother [[Dom DiMaggio|Dominic]] challenged Engelberg's version of Joe's final moments and his motives,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/joe-brother-takes-swing-article-1.888177 | title=Joe D's Brother Takes Swing | first=Michael | last=O'Keeffe | work=[[New York Daily News]] | date=August 11, 2000 | access-date=February 14, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215075547/https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/joe-brother-takes-swing-article-1.888177 | archive-date=February 15, 2020 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/joe-morris-final-days-lawyer-crony-isolated-dying-dimaggio-article-1.824484 | title=Joe D & Morris: The Final Days How Lawyer Crony Isolated the Dying DiMaggio | first1=Bill | last1=Madden | author-link1=Bill Madden (sportswriter) | first2=Luke | last2=Cyphers | first3=Michael | last3=O'Keeffe | work=New York Daily News | date=April 25, 1999 | access-date=February 14, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215101106/https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/joe-morris-final-days-lawyer-crony-isolated-dying-dimaggio-article-1.824484 | archive-date=February 15, 2020 | url-status=live }}</ref> Engleberg continuously denied those who questioned DiMaggio's last words, reporting that one night when he and a terminally ill DiMaggio were sitting together, DiMaggio told him, "I don’t feel bad about dying. At least I’ll be with Marilyn again."<ref name=":2" />
== Advertising ==
[[File:Joe dimaggio camel ad.jpg|thumb|1941 advertisement for [[Camel (cigarette)|Camel]] cigarettes featuring DiMaggio]]
In the 1970s, DiMaggio became a spokesman for [[Mr. Coffee]], and was the face of the electric [[drip coffee]] makers for over 20 years. [[Vincent Marotta]], the CEO of North American Systems, which manufactured Mr. Coffee at the time, recruited DiMaggio for the [[advertising campaign]].<ref name=nytimes>{{cite news |first=Margalit |last=Fox |title=Vincent Marotta Sr., a Creator of Mr. Coffee, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/business/vincent-marotta-sr-a-creator-of-mr-coffee-dies-at-91.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 3, 2015 |access-date=August 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219200901/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/business/vincent-marotta-sr-a-creator-of-mr-coffee-dies-at-91.html?_r=0 |archive-date=December 19, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> DiMaggio's spots were successful with consumers. In a 2007 interview with ''[[The Columbus Dispatch]]'', Marotta joked that "millions of kids grew up thinking Joe DiMaggio was a famous appliance salesman."<ref name=nytimes/> Despite the commercials, DiMaggio rarely drank [[coffee]] due to ulcers,<ref name=nytimes/> and when he did drink coffee, he preferred [[Sanka]] [[instant coffee]] rather than coffee brewed by Mr. Coffee machines.<ref name=nytimes/>

In 1972, DiMaggio became a spokesman for the [[Bowery Savings Bank]]. Except for a five-year hiatus in the 1980s, he regularly made commercials for them until 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/08/business/the-media-business-with-joe-dimaggio-leaving-it-just-won-t-be-the-bowery.html|title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; With Joe DiMaggio Leaving, It Just Won't Be the Bowery|first=Stuart|last=Elliott|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 8, 1992|access-date=February 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105085429/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/08/business/the-media-business-with-joe-dimaggio-leaving-it-just-won-t-be-the-bowery.html|archive-date=January 5, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1986, he became a spokesperson for Florida's Cross Keys Village, an active retirement community.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida on March 16, 1986 · Page 119|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/129487255/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Newspapers.com|date=March 16, 1986 |language=en}}</ref>

== Television programs ==
Beginning in April 1952, DiMaggio had 10-minute programs on Channel 11 in New York City before and after each Yankees' home game. Episodes included interviews with guests and DiMaggio's comments about baseball. The team owned the program, with DiMaggio under contract to the Yankees. He also did ''Joe DiMaggio's Dugout'' on Channel 4 in New York City, a weekly filmed program unrelated to the pre-and post-game shows. It featured instructional sessions and quizzes for young people.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Val |title=The 'Yankee Clipper' at the Mike: Joe DiMaggio Discusses His Various Video Activities |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/05/11/archives/the-yankee-clipper-at-the-mike-joe-dimaggio-discusses-his-various.html |access-date=February 2, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=May 11, 1952 |page=X 11|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

== Death ==
[[File:Hcc-colma-dimaggio1.jpg|thumb|DiMaggio's grave at [[Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California)|Holy Cross Cemetery]] in [[Colma, California|Colma]], California]]
DiMaggio was a heavy smoker for much of his adult life.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/1999/03-09/0060_joe_dimaggio_1914-1999__goodbye__.html | title=JOE DIMAGGIO 1914–1999: Goodbye, Joe | first=Steven | last=Wine | agency=Associated Press | date=March 9, 1999 | work=[[Kitsap Sun]] | location=[[Bremerton, Washington]] | access-date=February 14, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804170427/https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/1999/03-09/0060_joe_dimaggio_1914-1999__goodbye__.html | archive-date=August 4, 2019 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was admitted to Memorial Regional Hospital in [[Hollywood, Florida]], on October 12, 1998, for lung cancer surgery and remained there for 99&nbsp;days.<ref>{{cite news |last=Berkow |first=Ira |title=Sports of The Times; DiMaggio, Failing, Is 84 Today |date=November 25, 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/25/sports/sports-of-the-times-dimaggio-failing-is-84-today.html |access-date=May 25, 2009 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114013/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/25/sports/sports-of-the-times-dimaggio-failing-is-84-today.html?scp=2&sq |archive-date=August 26, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> He returned to his home in [[Hollywood, Florida]], on January 19, 1999, where he died on March 8 at age 84. DiMaggio's attorney, Morris Engleberg reported that his last words were, "I'll finally get to see Marilyn," referencing his ex-wife [[Marilyn Monroe]].<ref name=":2" />

DiMaggio's funeral was held on March 11, 1999, at [[Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco|Saints Peter and Paul Church]] in San Francisco,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00014154.html|website=ESPN SportsCentury|title=Yankee Clipper eulogized|agency=Associated Press|access-date=September 21, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725125050/http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014154.html|archive-date=July 25, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> and he was interred three months later at [[Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California)#D|Holy Cross Cemetery]] in [[Colma, California]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fit-for-the-Clipper-DiMaggio-s-tomb-a-work-of-2925115.php|title = Fit for the Clipper / DiMaggio's tomb a work of grace, precision| newspaper=Sfgate |date = June 16, 1999}}</ref> His son also died that year, on August 6, at age 57.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Siblings/Dimaggio.JoeJr.Obit.html|title=The Obit for Joe DiMaggio Jr (Joe DiMaggio's Only Son Dies)|agency=Associated Press|website=The Deadball Era|date=August 7, 1999|access-date=February 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020210722/http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Siblings/Dimaggio.JoeJr.Obit.html|archive-date=October 20, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
At his death, ''[[The New York Times]]'' called DiMaggio's 1941 56-game hitting streak "perhaps the most enduring record in sports."<ref name=NYTobit />

According to American geneticist [[Mary-Claire King]], in the spring of 1981 DiMaggio babysat her daughter at the San Francisco airport so King could drop her mother off to her flight to Chicago. According to King, if it were not for DiMaggio's kindness, she would have almost certainly missed her own flight that was taking her and her daughter to Washington, D.C., a trip that eventually resulted in King's getting her first major grant from the [[National Institutes of Health]] and the discovery of the breast and ovarian cancer-causing gene [[BRCA1]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-maryclaire-king/brca-marriage-testing_b_17908074.html |title=The Week My Husband Left And My House Was Burgled I Secured A Grant To Begin The Project That Became BRCA1 |first=Mary-Claire |last=King |website=[[HuffPost]] |date=September 15, 2017 |access-date=September 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917015403/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-maryclaire-king/brca-marriage-testing_b_17908074.html |archive-date=September 17, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On September 17, 1992, the doors were opened at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, for which he raised over $4&nbsp;million.<ref name=NYTobit />

[[File:Joe DiMaggio Plaque.JPG|thumb|left|upright=0.8|DiMaggio's plaque at the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]]]]
On April 13, 1998, DiMaggio was given the Sports Legend Award at the 13th annual [[American Sportscasters Association]] Hall of Fame Awards Dinner in New York City. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and a longtime fan of DiMaggio, made the presentation to the Yankee great. The event was one of DiMaggio's last public appearances before taking ill.

[[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]]'s fifth monument was dedicated to DiMaggio on April 25, 1999, and the [[West Side Highway]] was officially renamed The Joe DiMaggio Highway in his honor. The Yankees wore DiMaggio's number 5 on the left sleeves of their uniforms for the 1999 season. He is ranked No. 11 on ''[[The Sporting News]]''' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and he was elected by fans to the [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]]. In addition to his number 5 being retired by the [[New York Yankees]], DiMaggio's number was also retired by the [[Florida Marlins]], who retired it in honor of their first team president, [[Carl Barger]], who died five months before the team took the field for the first time in 1993. DiMaggio had been his favorite player.

In 2000 after some negotiations,<ref>{{cite web |title=DIMAGGIO, LLC. v. City & County of San Francisco, 187 F. Supp. 2d 1359 (S.D. Fla. 2000) |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/187/1359/2310227/ |website=law.justia.com |access-date=22 January 2022 |date=29 June 2000 |quote=...the Court finds it lacks personal jurisdiction over San Francisco in this matter. Unlike the game of baseball, personal jurisdiction in federal court is not a fielder's choice.}}</ref> the heirs of Joe DiMaggio's estate, two granddaughters and their four children, welcomed the renaming of San Francisco's North Beach playground, the place where Joe DiMaggio first took up baseball as a boy, as the Joe DiMaggio North Beach Playground.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Glionna |first1=John |title=San Francisco Park Will Be Named for DiMaggio After All |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-11-mn-34794-story.html |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=22 January 2022 |date=11 October 2000 }}</ref>

In 2001, Major League Baseball introduced an online [[daily fantasy sports|daily fantasy]] game called "Beat the Streak" which required players to pick one or two MLB players to get a hit in a game that day. The goal was to pick correctly 57 times in a row to beat DiMaggio's record streak. {{As of|August 2021}}, the prize money for beating the streak was $5.6 million; more than 4.5 million players had combined to make over 100 million attempts but none had reached even 52 consecutive hits in the game's history.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Waldstein |first1=David |title=They Tried to Beat DiMaggio. Like Everyone Else, They Failed. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/sports/baseball/beat-the-streak.html |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 August 2021}}</ref>

In May 2006, the adopted daughters of DiMaggio's son held an auction of DiMaggio's personal items. Highlights included the ball he hit in breaking [[Wee Willie Keeler]]'s hitting-streak record ($63,250); his 2,000th career hit ball ($29,900); his 1947 Most Valuable Player Award ($281,750); the uniform worn in the 1951 World Series ($195,500); his Hall of Fame ring ($69,000); a photograph Marilyn autographed "I love you Joe" ($80,500); her passport ($115,000); and their marriage certificate ($23,000). Lot 758, DiMaggio's white 1991 [[Mercedes-Benz W126|Mercedes 420 SEL sedan]], which was a gift from the New York Yankees commemorating the 50th anniversary of DiMaggio's 1941 season, sold for $18,000. The event netted a total of $4.1&nbsp;million.

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On August 8, 2011, the [[United States Postal Service]] announced that an image of DiMaggio would appear on a stamp for the first time. It was issued as part of the "Major League Baseball All-Star Stamp Series," which came out in July 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=One More Honor for Joe D: Finally, a Stamp|work=the New York Times|date=August 8, 2011|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/one-more-honor-for-joe-d-finally-a-stamp/|access-date=August 14, 2011|first=Sydney|last=Ember|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110922140038/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/one-more-honor-for-joe-d-finally-a-stamp/|archive-date=September 22, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

DiMaggio insisted on being introduced as the "Greatest Living Ballplayer" at events, including Yankee Old-Timers Day, and he once punched [[Billy Crystal]] in the stomach for not introducing him as such.<ref>{{cite book | title=Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? | first=Billy | last=Crystal | author-link=Billy Crystal |year=2013 | page=167 | publisher=Henry Holt and Company | location=New York | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxwm9u8hXAYC&q=joe+dimaggio+insist+greatest+living+yankee&pg=PA167 | isbn=978-0-8050-9823-5 | access-date=February 15, 2020}}</ref>

In 2013, the [[Bob Feller Act of Valor Award]] honored DiMaggio as one of 37 Baseball Hall of Fame members for his service in the United States Army Air Force during World War II.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://actofvaloraward.org/hof-players/ |title=WWII HOF Players |publisher=Bob Feller Act of Valor Award |access-date=August 21, 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008204152/https://actofvaloraward.org/hof-players/ }}</ref>

The Joe DiMaggio Fields in his hometown of [[Martinez, California]], are named after him.

There is a Joe DiMaggio Street in [[San Antonio|San Antonio, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Merrisa |date=30 September 2014 |title=San Antonio street names and groupings |url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/slideshow/San-Antonio-street-names-and-groupings-94695.php |website=mysanantonio.com}}</ref>

== Career statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Category !! [[Games played|G]] !! [[At bat|AB]] !! [[Run (baseball)|R]] !! [[Hit (baseball)|H]] !! [[Double (baseball)|2B]] !! [[Triple (baseball)|3B]] !! [[Home run|HR]] !! [[Runs batted in|RBI]] !! [[Base on balls|BB]] !! [[Strikeout|SO]] !! [[Batting average (baseball)|AVG]] !! [[On-base percentage|OBP]] !! [[Slugging percentage|SLG]] !! [[On-base plus slugging percentage|OPS]] !! [[Fielding percentage|FLD%]] !! {{Abbreviation|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| Total || 1,736 || 6,821 || 1,390 || 2,214 || 389 || 131 || 361 || 1,537 || 790 || 369 || .325 || .398 || .579 || .977 || .978 || [https://baseball-reference.com/players/d/dimagjo01.shtml]
|}

DiMaggio played in 10 World Series, winning 9. His only loss was in the [[1942 World Series]]. He batted .271 (54–199), with 27 runs scored, 8 home runs, and 30 RBI in 51 post-season games.

== In popular culture ==
[[File:EisenhowerRockyJoe.jpg|thumb|
DiMaggio with President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and [[Rocky Marciano]] in 1953]]
[[File:President Ronald Reagan shaking hands with Joe DiMaggio.jpg|thumb|right|President [[Ronald Reagan]] and DiMaggio at the White House, March 27, 1981]]
[[File:President George H. W. Bush and Joe DiMaggio.jpg|thumb|right|DiMaggio with [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1991]]
[[File:Joe DiMaggio 1950.png|thumb|DiMaggio in 1950]]

An American icon, DiMaggio's popularity during his career was such that he was referenced in film, television, literature, art, and music both during his career and decades after he retired.
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=== Art ===
* [[Pierre Bellocq]]: ''Canvas of Stars'' [[mural]] for [[Gallagher's Steak House]] (2006)<ref>[http://www.dogwoodstable.com/canvas-stars.shtml "Canvas of Stars – Peb's New Mural" ''dogwoodstable.com''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710143545/http://www.dogwoodstable.com/canvas-stars.shtml |date=July 10, 2011 }} May 28, 2010.</ref>
* [[Robert Casilla (artist)|Robert Casilla]]: ''The Continuity of Greatness''<ref>[http://robertcasillafineart.com/dataviewer.asp?keyvalue=13840&page=LimitedEditions "Portfolio of Works" ''Robert Casilla Fine Art''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826071543/http://robertcasillafineart.com/dataviewer.asp?keyvalue=13840&page=LimitedEditions |date=August 26, 2011 }} April 6, 2011.</ref>
*[[Zenos Frudakis]]: bronze sculpture of DiMaggio for the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital<ref>[http://zenosfrudakis.com/sculptures/portrait/JoeDiMaggio.html "Sculptures: Joe DiMaggio" ''zenosfrudakis.com''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718152605/http://zenosfrudakis.com/sculptures/portrait/JoeDiMaggio.html |date=July 18, 2011 }} May 28, 2010.</ref>
*[[Red Grooms]]: ''Joltin' Joe Takes a Swing'' installation (1985–1988)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/04/nyregion/art-sculptors-a-giant-and-company.html | title=Sculptors: A Giant and Company | first=Fred B. | last=Adelson | date=June 4, 2000 | work=The New York Times | access-date=February 14, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908210026/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/04/nyregion/art-sculptors-a-giant-and-company.html?pagewanted=1 | archive-date=September 8, 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Literature ===
*"The Ex-Athlete" is based on him in [[Joyce Carol Oates]]'s 2000 novel ''[[Blonde (novel)|Blonde]].''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/apr/09/fiction.reviews1|title=Blind leading the blonde|first=Cressida|last=Connnolly|work=The Guardian|date=April 9, 2000|access-date=November 24, 2020}}</ref>
* In [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s 1952 novel, ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'', Santiago is a fan of DiMaggio.<ref>{{cite news|title=Joltin' Joe Has Gone Away|author=Barnes, Bart|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/baseball/daily/march99/09/dimag9.htm|date=March 8, 1999|access-date=August 9, 2020}}</ref>

=== Music ===
*[[Simon & Garfunkel]]: "[[Mrs. Robinson]]" (Paul Simon performed the song on Joe DiMaggio Day in Yankee Stadium, a month after DiMaggio died.)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/sports/baseball/dimaggio-simon-oped.html | first=Paul | last=Simon | author-link=Paul Simon | date=March 9, 1999 | work=The New York Times | title=The Silent Superstar | access-date=February 9, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215141842/http://www.nytimes.com/library/sports/baseball/dimaggio-simon-oped.html | archive-date=February 15, 2016 | url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Billy Joel]]: "[[We Didn't Start the Fire]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-09-26/billy-joel-we-didnt-start-the-fire-30th-anniversary|title=Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire': Where are they now?|work=Los Angeles Times|last=Marvar|first=Alexandra|date=September 26, 2019|access-date=November 23, 2020}}</ref>

=== Movies ===
* ''[[Blonde (2022 film)|Blonde]]'', played by [[Bobby Cannavale]]<ref>{{cite web |title='Blonde': 10 of the Marilyn Monroe Biopic's Stars and Their Real-Life Inspirations |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/marilyn-monroe-blonde-characters-casting/john-f-kennedy-portrayed-by-caspar-phillipson/ |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=6 August 2023 |date=28 September 2022}}</ref>

=== Theatre ===
*''[[Bronx Bombers (play)|Bronx Bombers]]'' (2013) by [[Eric Simonson]]: DiMaggio is a character<ref>[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/182122-THE-WEEK-AHEAD-Sept-14-20-Romeo-and-Juliet-Opens-Forever-Tango-Dances-Away-and-Reeve-Carney-Departs-Spider-Man "The Week Ahead" ''Playbill''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921161656/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/182122-THE-WEEK-AHEAD-Sept-14-20-Romeo-and-Juliet-Opens-Forever-Tango-Dances-Away-and-Reeve-Carney-Departs-Spider-Man |date=September 21, 2013 }}. Retrieved September 16, 2013</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball career on-base percentage leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball career OPS leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball career slugging percentage leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball career total bases leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball career triples leaders]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise]]

== References ==
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=== Works cited ===
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* {{cite book |last=Banner |first=Lois |title=Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox |year=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-4088-3133-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/marilynpassionpa0000bann}}
* {{cite book |last=Churchwell |first=Sarah |title=The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe |year=2004 |publisher=Granta Books |isbn=978-0-312-42565-4}}
* {{cite book |last=Spoto |first=Donald |title=Marilyn Monroe: The Biography |year=2001 |publisher=Cooper Square Press |isbn=978-0-8154-1183-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/marilynmonroe00dona}}
* {{cite book |last=Summers |first=Anthony |title=Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe |year=1985 |publisher=Victor Gollancz Ltd |isbn=978-0-575-03641-3}}
{{refend}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book |last=Cramer |first=Richard Ben |author-link=Richard Ben Cramer |title=Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2000 |isbn=0684853914 |url=https://archive.org/details/joedimaggioheros00cram }}
* {{cite book |last=Kahn |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Kahn |title=Joe and Marilyn: A Memory of Love |isbn=978-0380704620 |publisher=Avon Books |year=1986 |url=https://archive.org/details/joemarilynmemory0000kahn}}
* {{cite book |last=Charyn |first=Jerome |title=Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0300123289 |url=https://archive.org/details/joedimaggiolongv0000char |url-access=registration }}
* {{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Kostya |author-link=Kostya Kennedy |title=56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports |publisher=Sports Illustrated Books |year=2011 |isbn=978-1603201773 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781603201773}}
* {{cite book |last=O'Toole |first=Andrew |url=https://archive.org/details/strangersinbronx0000otoo |title=Strangers in the Bronx: DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard |publisher=Triumph Books |year=2015 |isbn=978-1629370279 |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book|last1=Positano |first1=Rock |last2=Positano |first2=John |title=Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2017 |isbn=978-1501156847 |url=https://archive.org/details/dinnerwithdimagg0000posi}}
* {{cite book |last2=Hecht |first2=Ben |last1=Monroe |first1=Marilyn |title=My Story |date=1974 |publisher=Stein and Day |isbn=9780812817072 |url=https://archive.org/details/mystory00monr}}

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