What is Joe DiMaggio?
[[File:DiMaggio cropped.jpg|thumb|right|290px|Joe DiMaggio at the 1937 Major League Baseball All-Stars in [[Washington, D.C.]]]] '''Joseph Paul DiMaggio'''{{efn|Original Italian: '''Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio'''}} (November 25, 1914 - March 8, 1999) was an American [[Major League Baseball]] [[center fielder]] who played his whole career for the [[New York Yankees]]. His nicknames were '''Joltin' Joe''' and '''The Yankee Clipper'''. He played from [[1936]] to [[1942]] and then joined the army in [[1943]] because of [[World War II]]. He came back and began playing again in [[1946]] until his retirement in [[1951]] at the age of 36. By the time he retired he had hit 361 [[home run]]s. He hit almost one home run for every [[strikeout]]. DiMaggio died on the 8th of March, 1999, of [[lung cancer]]. He is widely regarded as one of the best [[baseball]] players of all time. DiMaggio was also well known for his marriage and lifelong devotion to [[Marilyn Monroe]]. == Notes == {{notelist}} == Other websites == {{commonscat|Joe DiMaggio}} *{{Baseball-reference|id=d/dimagjo01}} {{US-sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:DiMaggio, Joe}} [[Category:1914 births]] [[Category:1999 deaths]] [[Category:American baseball players]] [[Category:Deaths from lung cancer]] [[Category:New York Yankees players]] [[Category:National Baseball Hall of Fame members]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Los Angeles]]