BASEBALL PLAYER

Joe DiMaggio

1914 - 1999

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Joseph Paul DiMaggio (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joe DiMaggio is the most popular baseball player (up from 2nd in 2019), the 827th most popular biography from United States (down from 782nd in 2019) and the most popular American Baseball Player.

Joe DiMaggio is most famous for being a member of the New York Yankees and for his 56-game hitting streak in 1941.

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Joe DiMaggio ranks 1 out of 91. After him are Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Lou Gehrig, Sadaharu Oh, Cy Young, Hank Aaron, Alexander Cartwright, Ty Cobb, Ichiro Suzuki, Willie Mays, and Ted Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Joe DiMaggio ranks 28. Before him are William S. Burroughs, Karl Carstens, Willi Stoph, Bohumil Hrabal, Lída Baarová, and Abd al-Karim Qasim. After him are Joe Louis, Max Perutz, Aribert Heim, Demetrios I of Constantinople, William Vickrey, and Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover. Among people deceased in 1999, Joe DiMaggio ranks 24. Before him are Anatoliy Solovianenko, Robert Bresson, Willi Stoph, Glenn T. Seaborg, Wilt Chamberlain, and Georgios Papadopoulos. After him are Trygve Haavelmo, Oliver Reed, Gerhard Herzberg, Julius Nyerere, Iris Murdoch, and Jerzy Grotowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe DiMaggio ranks 827 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Johnson (1911), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Brandon Lee (1965), Willis Carrier (1876), Anastacia (1968), and Alfred Hershey (1908). After him are Danny Glover (1946), Ruth Benedict (1887), Joan Crawford (1904), G. W. Bailey (1944), Ray Liotta (1954), and John Carpenter (1948).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among baseball players born in United States, Joe DiMaggio ranks 1. After him are Babe Ruth (1895), Jackie Robinson (1919), Lou Gehrig (1903), Cy Young (1867), Hank Aaron (1934), Alexander Cartwright (1820), Ty Cobb (1886), Willie Mays (1931), Ted Williams (1918), Mickey Mantle (1931), and Barry Bonds (1964).

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