When Joe DiMaggio died, a 57-year old man with a gray pony-tail was one of the select few allowed to attend the family funeral. He was a casket-bearer that day, his face anonymous to the national ...

March: Joe’s older brother Vince makes the ... July: At Boston’s old Braves Field, DiMaggio becomes the first rookie ever to play in an All-Star game. October: In his rookie season, DiMaggio ...

Robinson": "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? "A nation turns its lonely eyes to you." Earlier, Ernest Hemingway had turned to the Yankee Clipper when he sought a symbol. In his novel The Old Man ...

From "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life" Editor's note ... The clubhouse was just like old times: packed with happy hangers-on, wet with spray, and loud with song. (It was a new generation, but ...