I Remember Joe Dimaggio: Personal Memories of the Yankee Clipper by the People Who Knew Him Best

I Remember Joe Dimaggio: Personal Memories of the Yankee Clipper by the People Who Knew Him Best

At both the plate and in the field, Joe DiMaggio was one of baseball's most graceful athletes. During his thirteen seasons with the New York Yankees, he played in ten World Series and won nine world championships. For his career, he was a two-time batting champion, three-time Most Valuable Player, hit 361 home runs, and maintained a .325 batting average. His fifty-six-consecutive-game batting streak in 1941 has yet to be broken. DiMaggio's baseball career began in 1932 when he filled in at shortstop at midseason for a minor league team. In 1934 he became the property of the New York Yankees, which marked the beginning of his road toward greatness in the nation's most famous city on one of the most hallowed fields in the sport. Off the field, his life was marked by a famous marriage to and divorce from Marilyn Monroe, a late-1960s popular song, and a somewhat unhappy retirement. On baseball's one hundredth anniversary in 1969, he was voted the greatest living player of the game, and the Yankees erected a plaque to him among the memorials to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. On March 8, 1999, at the age of eighty-four, DiMaggio died after a five-month battle with cancer. In I Remember Joe DiMaggio, dozens of the great ballplayer's contemporaries, teammates, coaches, fans, friends, and relatives recall their favorite memories and anecdotes of this man who became an icon of America. It is a warm, entertaining, and inspiring book about a man whose fame has been the stuff of legend for more than half a century. "Cataneo presents eyewitness stories documenting every important phrase of the Yankee Clipper's life story." -- Baseball Weekly, March 21, 2001 "I Remember Joe DiMaggio" joins our "I Remember... Series" which depicts the true legacy of several sports icons, including Walter Payton, Payne Stewart, Pete Maravich, and Ben Hogan. Cataneo has compiled an amazing collection of memories about an incredible Yankees legend who, even in death, has not been forgotten. "This book is not a biography. It is not a photograph of Joe DiMaggio--that's been done... This book is an impressionist painting." -from the introduction to "I Remember Joe DiMaggio" At both the plate and in the field, Joe DiMaggio was one of baseball's most graceful athletes. During his thirteen seasons with the New York Yankees, he played in ten World Series and won nine world championships. For his career, he was a routine batting champion, three-time Most Valuable Player, hit 361 home runs, and maintained a .325 batting average. His fifty-six consecutive-game batting streak in 1941 has yet to be broken. DiMaggio's career began in 1932 when he filled in at shortstop at midseason for a minor league team. In 1934 he became the property of the New York Yankees, which marked the beginning of his road toward greatness on one of the most hallowed fields in the sport. Off the field, his life was marked by a famous marriage to and divorce from Marilyn Monroe, a late 1960s popular song, and a somewhat unhappy retirement. On baseball's one hundredth anniversary in 1969, he was voted the greatest living player of the game, and the Yankees erected a plague to him among the memorials to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. On March 8, 1999, at the age of eighty-four, DiMaggio died after a five-month battle with cancer. In "I Remember Joe DiMaggio," dozens of the great ballplayer's contemporaries, teammates, coaches, fans, friends, and relatives recall their favorite memories and anecdotes of this man who became an American icon. It is a warm, entertaining, and inspiring book about a man whose fame has been the stuff of legend for more than half a century. DAVID CATANEO is a life-long Yankees fan, veteran sportswriter, freelance writer, and former baseball writer for the "Boston Herald." The author of "Peanuts and Crackerjack," "Tony C.," and "A History of the Detroit Tigers," he lives in New Hampshire with his family. Used Book in Good Condition