For example, when Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, Joe DiMaggio, responsible for Monroe's arrangements, chose Westwood, not because of its celebrities, but because it was the resting place of Monroe's mother's friend, Grace Goddard, and Goddard's aunt, Ana Lower, both of whom had cared for Monroe as a child.

He did play him a few notes of a new song he had been working on ; " It's not for the movie ... it's a song about times past — about Mrs. Roosevelt and Joe DiMaggio and stuff.

Williams played back-up behind DiMaggio's brother Vince DiMaggio and Ivey Shiver on the ( then ) Pacific Coast League San Diego Padres.

While in the Pacific Coast League in 1936, Williams met future teammates and friends Dom DiMaggio and Bobby Doerr, who were on the Pacific Coast League's San Francisco Seals.

In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".

Williams led the league with 135 runs scored and 37 home runs, and he finished third with 335 total bases, the most home runs, runs scored, and total bases by a Red Sox player since Jimmie Foxx's in 1938 .< ref ><< http :// www. baseball-reference. com / teams / BOS / leaders_bat_50. shtml >></ ref > Williams placed second in MVP voting, with Joe DiMaggio winning with 291 votes to 254 votes on the strength of his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak and large number of RBIs.

On August 25, Williams passed Johnny Mize for sixth place, and on September 3, Williams passed Joe DiMaggio for fifth all-time in career home runs with his 362nd career home run.

After DiMaggio passed a test on his knee, he was bought on November 21 in exchange for $ 25, 000 and five players, with the Seals keeping him for the 1935 season.

DiMaggio made his major league debut on May 3, 1936, batting ahead of Lou Gehrig.

" Mantle's original plaque, along with DiMaggio's, are now on display at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, with the DiMaggio plaque still hung a few inches higher than Mantle's.

Joe DiMaggio was able to command more money on signing fees than he made in his playing career, though he also gave individual autographs.

Known as " The Italian Cathedral of the West ," Saints Peter and Paul Church is located on the north side of Filbert Street in front of Washington Square, where Joe DiMaggio married his first wife and came for photos after his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

The 1999 independent film The First of May, starring Mickey Rooney and Joe DiMaggio, was shot on various locations throughout DeLand.

* John DiMaggio ( born 1968 ), actor, voice of Bender on Futurama.

In 2011, the U. S. Postal Service announced that Doby would be one of the four baseball players ( along with fellow Hall of Famers Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, and Willie Stargell ) to appear on a postage stamp in 2012, as part of its " Major League Baseball All-Stars " series.

Cobb went on to refer to Musial as " a better player than Joe DiMaggio was in his prime.

Joe DiMaggio holds the Major League Baseball record with a streak of 56 consecutive games in 1941 which began on May 15 and ended July 17.

He was offered a coaching job with the Yankees in and instructed his replacement ( DiMaggio ) on the nuances of Yankee Stadium's outfield.

He led the AL in putouts, assists and double plays, and was second on the team to Joe DiMaggio and fifth in the league in both homers and RBI ( 111 ).

In Gordon again increased his home run total to 30 and was second on the team to DiMaggio in homers and RBI ( 103 ), leading the AL in assists and posting career highs in runs ( 112 ), triples ( 10 ), slugging average (. 511 ), total bases ( 315 ) and stolen bases ( 18 ) while hitting. 281.

In the 1937 All-Star Game, pitcher Dizzy Dean kept shaking off Hartnett's signs for a curve ball resulting in a hit by Joe DiMaggio, a home run by Lou Gehrig and finally, a line drive off the bat of Earl Averill that struck Dean on his toe.

He picked up his 100th RBI of the season on August 31 against Jason Vargas ( joining Williams, DiMaggio, and Al Simmons as the only players with 100 RBIs in their first five seasons ) and had three hits as the Cardinals beat the Florida Marlins 5 – 3.

During the fourth game of the 1939 World Series, in the tenth inning, with the score tied and runners on first and third, Joe DiMaggio singled.

DiMaggio raced around the bases and scored while Lombardi was unconscious, the ball a few feet away on the ground.

Dominic Paul DiMaggio ( February 12, 1917 – May 8, 2009 ), nicknamed " The Little Professor ", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder.

In May 1936, Walker's past injuries and the arrival of the Yankees ' new star, Joe DiMaggio, prompted manager Joe McCarthy to trade Walker to the White Sox despite his. 350 average.

* March 8 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player ( b. 1914 )

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 who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees.

In the wake of former New York Yankees player Joe DiMaggio's death on March 8, 1999, Governor George Pataki proposed renaming the Deegan Expressway to the " Joe DiMaggio Highway ".

* February 12 – Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

In 2009, the college lost a notable trustee, Dominic DiMaggio, an All-Star center fielder for Boston Red Sox who served on the college's Board of Trustees from 1978 to 2009.

He has the seventh-highest slugging percentage lifetime of any ballplayer in major league history, at. 605, ahead of such sluggers as Mark McGwire and Joe DiMaggio.

In the 1941 All-Star Game, Williams batted fourth behind Joe DiMaggio, who at that time had broken the consecutive hitting streak record and already had a 48-consecutive-game hitting streak by the All-Star break.

Through 2011, he was one of seven major leaguers to have had at least four 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons in their first five years, along with Chuck Klein, Joe DiMaggio, Ralph Kiner, Mark Teixeira, Albert Pujols, and Ryan Braun.

DiMaggio was playing semi-pro ball when older brother Vince DiMaggio, playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, talked his manager into letting DiMaggio fill in at shortstop.

On June 14 in Cincinnati, Rose singled in the first inning off Cubs pitcher Dave Roberts ; Rose would proceed to get a hit in every game he played until August 1, making a run at Joe DiMaggio ’ s record 56-game hitting streak, which had stood virtually unchallenged for 37 years.

Mantle moved to center field in 1952, replacing DiMaggio, who retired at the end of the 1951 season.

Mays ' fly was hit to deep right center, and as both Mantle and DiMaggio converged to make the catch, DiMaggio called for it at the last second, causing Mantle to suddenly stop short as his cleats caught a drainage cover in the outfield grass.

Special memorial Masses were also held at the cathedral following the deaths of artist Andy Warhol, baseball player Joe DiMaggio, and noted author William F. Buckley, Jr.

He struck him out his first three at bats, but when DiMaggio hit a popup behind the plate at his fourth, Dean screamed at his catcher, " Drop it !, Drop it!

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract listed him as the player who had the highest ratio of slugging percentage to on-base percentage in baseball history at that time, ahead of Dave Kingman and Tony Armas and 4th in RBI per game by an outfielder ( behind Sam Thompson, Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth ).

Using a similar structure, the film next turns to a young Bill Gates at Harvard University, in the early 1970s, with classmate Steve Ballmer ( John DiMaggio ), and Gates ’ high school friend Paul Allen ( Josh Hopkins ).

After Ken Keltner made two fine stops at third base earlier in the game, Boudreau snagged a bad hop grounder at short barehanded and started a double play to retire DiMaggio.

In his spare time, he painted ; his 1989 oil portrait of Joe DiMaggio sold at auction for $ 9, 500 in 2006.

That injury ( coupled with the knowledge that the Yankees were set to bring up a rookie center fielder named Joe DiMaggio the next season ) led to Combs ' decision to retire at the age of 36.

Through 2011 he was one of seven major leaguers to have had at least four 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons in their first five years, along with Chuck Klein, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Mark Teixeira, Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard and Ryan Braun.

Through 2011, he was one of seven major leaguers to have had at least four 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons in their first five years, along with Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Ralph Kiner, Mark Teixeira, and Pujols, and Ryan Braun.

Like Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Hank Greenberg, all of whom spent at least three years in the military at the peak of their power, Mize undoubtedly lost a large number of home runs because of his service.