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Joe DiMaggio
Sign in to saveAlso known as Joseph Paul DiMaggio, Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Joltin' Joe, The Yankee Clipper, The 56-game hitting streak
American baseball player (1914–1999)
Key facts
- Batting average
- .325
- Hits
- 2,214
- Runs batted in
- 1,537
- Vote
- 88.8% (fourth ballot)
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Army Air Forces
- Service years
- 1943–1945
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Martinez
- Place of death
- Hollywood
- Spouse
- Dorothy Arnold
- Sibling
- Vince DiMaggio
- Occupation
- baseball player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- baseball
- Member of team
- New York Yankees
- Position played
- center fielder
- League
- Major League Baseball
- Country for sport
- United States
- Conflict
- World War II
- Official website
- www.joedimaggio.com
- Image
- DiMaggio cropped.jpg
- Height
- 188
Show 13 more facts
- birth name
- Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio
- Commons category
- Joe DiMaggio
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- date of birth
- 1914-11-25
- date of death
- 1999-03-08
- manner of death
- natural causes
- handedness
- right-handedness
- different from
- Stan Musial
- nickname
- The Yankee Clipper
- start of work period
- 1936-05-03
- end of work period
- 1951-09-30
- name in native language
- Joe DiMaggio
- P12749
- Ernst Welteke
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Paul DiMaggio (/dəˈmɑːdʒioʊ/; born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈpaːolo diˈmaddʒo]; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "the Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Born to Italian immigrants in California, he is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time and set the record for the longest hitting streak (56 games from May 15 – July 16, 1941).
DiMaggio was a three-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. His nine career World Series rings put him second only to his fellow Yankee Yogi Berra, who won 10.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joe DiMaggio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.