`` His real name's DiMaggio, only we call him Maggie because he has to take tranquilizers.

With the famous facade, the short right field porch and Monument Park, Yankee Stadium has been home to many of baseball's greatest players including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez.

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 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 ".

* Joe DiMaggio " Toast of the Town " Award ( for a player who has become a New York favorite )

As well as his work in the DC animated universe ( see below ), he has voiced the corrupt Baron Praxis in the PlayStation 2 video game Jak II, Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in a number of the Crash Bandicoot video games until Crash Twinsanity ( in which he was replaced by Lex Lang and Alex Fernandez / John DiMaggio ), Montross in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and Gorrath in the animated series Megas XLR.

On April 5, 1993, the day that the Marlins played their first-ever regular-season game, the Marlins retired the number 5 in Barger's memory, as his favorite player was Joe DiMaggio ( who wore number 5 in his career ); no Marlin has ever worn jersey number 5.

Only Joe DiMaggio, with his 56-game streak in, has bettered Dahlen's mark among right-handed batters.

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 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.

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.

One writer ( whom Williams thought was Mel Webb, who Williams called a " grouchy old guy ", although the identity of the writer remains unknown ) completely left Williams off his ballot, who would have tied DiMaggio or won if one writer who had voted Williams as second had voted him first.

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.

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.

DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, and Ted Williams, who had just retired, had been paid over $ 100, 000 in a season, and Ruth had a peak salary of $ 80, 000.

Nor had the New York press been all that kind to Mantle in his early years with the team: he struck out frequently, was injury-prone, was a " true hick " from Oklahoma, and was perceived as being distinctly inferior to his predecessor in center field, Joe DiMaggio.

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.

This mark was surpassed by Joe DiMaggio in 1941, who had a 56-game hitting streak.

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 ).

* In baseball, the number of consecutive games in which New York Yankees ' Joe DiMaggio had a base hit in 1941, still a record.

I had to pitch to Tommy Henrich, Charlie Keller and Joe DiMaggio in the ninth inning to get the Yankees out ," Feller said.

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.

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.

The result was costly, as Harry Walker doubled to center field in the bottom of the inning, with Enos Slaughter scoring from first base in his famed " Mad Dash " to win the game and Series for St. Louis ; had DiMaggio remained in the game, Walker's hit might have been catchable, or the outfielder's strong arm might have held Slaughter to third base.

In 1949 DiMaggio batted. 307 with 126 runs, and had his team-record 34-game hitting streak ; ironically, the streak was ended on August 9 by an outstanding catch made by his brother Joe.

* Joe DiMaggio recalled that he had more difficulty batting against Harder than against just about any other pitcher.

Despite his accomplishment, Williams lost the AL MVP race to the Yankees ' Joe DiMaggio, who holds the record for a hitting streak, with 56 straight games in which he had a hit.

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

John DiMaggio performs the voice of the robot Bender Bending Rodríguez and other, more minor, characters.

DiMaggio originally auditioned for the role of Professor Farnsworth, using the voice he uses to perform Bender, and also auditioned for Bender using a different voice.

Amy Poehler and John DiMaggio guest-starred as the characters of Jenda and Bender respectively.

The character Bender makes a cameo appearance when Homer and Bart pass through a quantum tunnel ; voice actor John DiMaggio reprised his role voicing Bender.

He portrayed baseball player Joe DiMaggio in the ESPN original series The Bronx Is Burning.

Other well-known players in the post-war years included: Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Carl Furillo, Sal Maglie, Vic Raschi, Roy Campanella, Dom DiMaggio, Ernie Lombardi, Joe Pepitone, Rico Petrocelli, Sal Bando, Rocky Colavito, and Tony Conigliaro.

Other classic supercouples have been Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, Gracie Allen and George Burns, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, June Carter and Johnny Cash, and Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman.

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.

She borrowed the fur trimmed suit she had worn while filming that day because she was to attend a Muscular Dystrophy fund raiser at Dodger Stadium that evening with her former husband Joe DiMaggio and co-star Dean Martin's young son, Dean Paul Martin.

Scott ( 1995 ) indicates that, in order to survive, organisations must conform to the rules and belief systems prevailing in the environment ( DiMaggio and Powell, 1983 ; Meyer and Rowan, 1977 ), because institutional isomorphism, both structural and procedural, will earn the organisation legitimacy ( Dacin, 1997 ; Deephouse, 1996 ; Suchman, 1995 ).

Mantle's hero was Joe DiMaggio.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

Williams was then switched from right field to left field, as there would be less sun in his eyes, and it would give Dominic DiMaggio a chance to play.

After that, Joe DiMaggio grounded to the infield, and in attempting to carry out a double play, Billy Herman was distracted by Travis as Travis slid into second base, and the throw to first base was wide, with Keltner scoring, making the score 5-4.

Williams was also almost traded for Joe DiMaggio in 1947.

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.

DiMaggio was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.

DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California, the eighth of nine children born to immigrants from Italy, Giuseppe ( 1872 – 1949 ) and Rosalia ( Mercurio ) DiMaggio ( 1878 – 1951 ).

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.

Scout Bill Essick of the New York Yankees was convinced that DiMaggio could overcome his knee injury and pestered the club to give DiMaggio another look.

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.

In 1939, DiMaggio was nicknamed the " Yankee Clipper " by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner.

Mantle was assigned uniform # 6, signifying the expectation that he would become the next Yankees star, following Babe Ruth (# 3 ), Lou Gehrig (# 4 ) and Joe DiMaggio (# 5 ).

Joe DiMaggio, in the last year of his career, was playing center field.

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.