California freshman baseball player Mattias Di Maggio is related to the great Joe DiMaggio, and is already living up to the ...

Joe DiMaggio only ever asked one person to sign a baseball for him — Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, the Yankee Clipper was invited by the Reagan White House to a state dinner honoring the Russian leader, ...

Rosalie Mercurio DiMaggio, a Sicilian immigrant, bore nine children, three of whom became Major League Baseball center fielders. Since the boys’ father, San Francisco fisherman Giuseppe, considered ...

It started on May 15, 1941, with a single against Eddie Smith of the White Sox at Yankee Stadium. Seventy-five years later, Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak remains baseball’s most iconic record.

Most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading pleasure while tipping ...

Major League Baseball’s opening day is here and what better way to honor the day than to remember a famous baseball player and his time on the Central Coast. We are talking about Joe DiMaggio.With the ...

You have probably heard about the legendary Yankees baseball player, Joe DiMaggio, who blew America away with his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak during WWII. Now is the perfect time to learn ...

“Here’s the pitch, swung on — belted! It’s a long one deep into left center — back goes Gionfriddo! Back- back-back-back-back-back. . .he makes a one-handed catch against the bullpen! Ohhh-hooo, ...

A Joe DiMaggio sports card has emerged on the secondary market, captivating collectors and fans alike. Joe DiMaggio, a legendary baseball player known for his remarkable career with the New York ...

Writing about Joe DiMaggio’s career on the diamond is a bit like writing about a great work of art: every time you touch on an especially memorable aspect, two or three more present themselves as ...

Eyed through the lens of statistics, the DiMaggio diamond doesn’t reveal its true brilliance. His .325 lifetime batting average is impressive, but it doesn’t compare with that of Ty Cobb’s (.366) or ...