The Powerful Swing of the Yankee Clipper!
JOE DiMAGGIO
Signed 4x6 B/W Photo on Plaque
w/ COA
An amazingly common sight for baseball fans in that Golden Era of American Baseball, it was called
THE POWERFUL SWING OF THE YANKEE CLIPPER.
In DiMaggio's thirteen year career, the Yankees won ten pennants and nine world championships. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15-July 16, 1941), a record that still stands.
WHO WAS JOE DiMAGGIO? Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio (November 25, 1914/ March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper," was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 13-year baseball career for the New York Yankees. He was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. He was the middle of three brothers who each became major league center fielders, the others being Vince and Dom. DiMaggio was a 3-time MVP winner and 13-time All-Star (the only player to be selected for the All-Star Game in every season he played). In his thirteen year career, the Yankees won ten pennants and nine world championships. At the time of his retirement, he had the fifth-most career home runs (361) and sixth-highest slugging percentage(.579)in history. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 1/July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. A 1969 poll conducted to coincide with the centennial of professional baseball voted him the sport's greatest living player.