but it has produced only one Joe DiMaggio. He has proved to be the most enduring symbol of baseball greatness. In the almost half a century from his retirement until his death on March 8, 1999, he ...

When Joe DiMaggio died, a 57-year old man with a gray ... Joe Jr. barely had enough time to spend it, as he died on August 7, 1999, five months after his father's death.

The lines, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?/Our nation turns its lonely ... home on March 8, 1999. He is 84 years old.