51 Facts About Joe DiMaggio

Joe DiMaggio was a three-time Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons.

Joe DiMaggio was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken during baseball's centennial year of 1969.

Outside of baseball, Joe DiMaggio is widely known for his marriage and life-long devotion to Marilyn Monroe.

When Joe DiMaggio was a toddler, Giuseppe moved his whole family to a North Beach apartment in San Francisco, California.

Joe DiMaggio recalled that he would do anything to get out of cleaning his father's boat, as the smell of dead fish nauseated him.

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High, Joe DiMaggio did not finish his education at Galileo High School and instead worked odd jobs including hawking newspapers, stacking boxes at a warehouse and working at an orange juice plant.

In less than two years, Joe DiMaggio made the jump from playground games to the PCL, one notch below the majors.

In 1934 Joe DiMaggio suffered a potentially career-threatening knee injury when he tore ligaments while stepping out of a jitney.

Joe DiMaggio remained with the Seals for the 1935 season and batted.

Joe DiMaggio's team won the 1935 PCL title, and DiMaggio was named the league's Most Valuable Player.

Joe DiMaggio set a franchise record for rookies in 1936 by hitting 29 home runs.

Joe DiMaggio's record stood for over 80 years until it was shattered by Aaron Judge, who tallied 52 homers in 2017.

In 1937, Joe DiMaggio built upon his rookie season by leading the majors with 46 home runs, 151 runs scored and 418 total bases.

Joe DiMaggio finished second in American League MVP voting in a close race with Charlie Gehringer of the Detroit Tigers.

In 1939, Joe DiMaggio was nicknamed the "Yankee Clipper" by Yankee's play-by-play announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened Joe DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner.

That year in August, Joe DiMaggio recorded 53 RBIs, tying Hack Wilson's 1930 record for most in a single month.

Joe DiMaggio won his first career batting title and MVP award, as well as leading the Yankees to their fourth consecutive World Series championship.

Joe DiMaggio was pictured with his son on the cover of the inaugural issue of SPORT magazine in September 1946.

In 1947, Joe 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 Joe DiMaggio for Ted Williams, but the trade was cancelled when MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra.

Joe DiMaggio holds the record for most seasons with more home runs than strikeouts, a feat he accomplished seven times, and five times consecutively from 1937 to 1941.

Joe DiMaggio might have had better power-hitting statistics had his home park not been Yankee Stadium.

Bill James calculated that Joe DiMaggio lost more home runs due to his home park than any other player in history.

Example, Joe DiMaggio was acutely handicapped by playing at Yankee Stadium.

Joe DiMaggio was plenty strong; he routinely hit balls in the 425-foot range.

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Whereas most sluggers perform better on their home fields, Joe DiMaggio hit only 41 percent of his career home runs in the Bronx.

Joe DiMaggio became eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953 but he was not elected until 1955.

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's streak is the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports.

Joe 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.

The day after the streak ended Joe DiMaggio started another streak that lasted 16 games, therefore hitting safely in 72 of 73 games.

The closest anyone has come to equaling Joe DiMaggio is Pete Rose, who hit safely in 44 straight games in 1978.

Joe DiMaggio was stationed at Santa Ana, California, Hawaii, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a physical education instructor.

Joe DiMaggio was released on a medical discharge in September 1945, due to chronic stomach ulcers.

Joe DiMaggio 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.

Joe 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.

In January 1937, Joe DiMaggio met actress Dorothy Arnold on the set of Manhattan Merry-Go-Round, in which he had a minor role, and she was an extra.

Joe DiMaggio underwent therapy, stopped drinking alcohol, and expanded his interests beyond baseball.

Monroe biographer Donald Spoto claimed that Joe DiMaggio was "very close to marrying" 1957 Miss America Marian McKnight, who won the crown with a Marilyn Monroe act, but McKnight denied it.

Joe DiMaggio was 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.

Joe DiMaggio reentered Monroe's life as her marriage to Arthur Miller was ending.

Joe DiMaggio's joined him in Florida where he was a batting coach for the Yankees.

Joe DiMaggio's son had spoken to Monroe on the phone the night of her death and said she seemed fine.

Devastated, Joe DiMaggio claimed Monroe's body and arranged for her funeral at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Joe DiMaggio barred Hollywood's elite, as well as members of the Kennedy family, including then-U.

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Joe DiMaggio had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week for 20 years.

Joe DiMaggio refused to talk about her publicly or otherwise exploit their relationship.

Joe DiMaggio did Joe DiMaggio's Dugout on Channel 4 in New York City, a weekly filmed program unrelated to the pre- and post-game shows.

Joe DiMaggio was a heavy smoker for much of his adult life.

Joe DiMaggio 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.

Joe 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.