Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr., was an Italian
American baseball player for the New York Yankees. He was the middle of three brothers who each became major
league center fielders, the others being Vince and Dom.

(Joe's father was from Isola delle Femmine an Italian town in North-Western Sicily.)

A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, DiMaggio was a 3-time MVP winner and 13-time All-Star (the only player
to be selected for the All-Star Game in every season he played). At the time of his retirement, he had the
fifth-most career home runs (361) and sixth-highest slugging percentage (.579) in history. He is perhaps best
known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15–July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. A 1969 poll conducted
to coincide with the centennial of professional baseball voted him the sport's greatest living player.

Don't forget his brother "the little professor" Dominic DiMaggio, who played for my hometown Red Sox during the 40's and 50's. He wasn't the hitter Joe was, but was considered the best fielder in the family and also a perennial all-star. IIRC Dom still has the Red Sox hitting streak record at somewhere around 34 games.

Sadly Dom died a little over a month ago.

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Dom Dimaggio died??? I am so sorry to hear that!