Paul Simon pens the song "Mrs. Robinson," which is released with the movie "The Graduate." The lines, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?/Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you" become part of ...

By the time the lights went on again, DiMaggio had vanished. Perhaps the best insight into why DiMaggio quit came from brother Tom: "He quit because he wasn’t Joe DiMaggio any more." ...

Diamond Images/Getty Images The song starts off with Ms. Bonney asking, “Hello, Joe, whaddaya know?” to which the clarinetist Ben Most, playing the part of DiMaggio, replies, “We need a hit ...