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Joseph Paul DiMaggio (/ d ə ˈ m ɑː dʒ i oʊ /; 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 baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.
DiMaggio in 1939. During the 1941 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, New York Yankees center fielder Joe DiMaggio recorded at least one hit in 56 consecutive games, breaking the MLB record for the longest hitting streak. His run lasted from May 15 to July 16, during which he had a .408 batting average.
Joe DiMaggio hit .408 during his record-holding 56-game streak. [8] In probability theory, every baseball game is a Bernoulli trial in which a hitter either does or does not get a hit. DiMaggio's streak of 56 consecutive games with hits awaits an equal streak: "The probability is .0003 that a .350 hitter will have a hitting streak of at least ...
Joe DiMaggio hit his second cycle in 1948, eleven seasons after his first cycle. The first cycle of the 1950s was hit by George Kell as a member of the Detroit Tigers. Mickey Mantle hit for the cycle in 1957. Ken Boyer hit for the cycle in 1961 and 1964, as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals.
The 1947 Yankees, led by MVP Joe DiMaggio, won the AL pennant by 12 games over the Tigers.They played the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series, winning a close-fought seven-game series that featured memorable moments like Cookie Lavagetto's walk-off double in game 4 and Al Gionfriddo's famous catch that robbed DiMaggio of a potential home run.
This year was noted for a "changing of the guard" for the Yankees, as it was Joe DiMaggio's final season [1] and Mickey Mantle's first. The 1951 season also marked the first year of Bob Sheppard's long tenure as Yankee Stadium's public address announcer.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio jersey? Ronkonkoma, New York, apparently. A framed Yankees uniform, worn and signed by Joltin' Joe himself, is no longer hanging on the living-room wall of Rudy ...
May 3, 1936: Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut, [2] batting ahead of Lou Gehrig.The Yankees had not been to the World Series since 1932, but, thanks in large part to their sensational rookie, they won the 1936 World Series.