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Joe DiMaggio’s Yankees career began 80 years ago today
- Updated: May 3, 2016
9:57 AM ET
Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of Joe DiMaggio’s major-league debut, as he had three hits, including a triple in a New York Yankees win over the St. Louis Browns.
Wrote the Associated Press that day: “The black-haired quiet lad who came up from the Pacific Coast heralded as the find of a decade, has been accepted into baseball’s upper crust after a debut that was as impressive as his lavish advance notices.”
DiMaggio was a part of baseball’s “upper crust” for every day of his major-league career, which lasted until 1951 (interrupted by three years of military service), and then well beyond that, as his status as a baseball icon lasts to this day.
Here are a few nuggets you might know and a few you might not on the great career of The Yankee Clipper.
The record for which DiMaggio is most known is his 56-game hitting streak in 1941. Amazingly, after going hitless against the Cleveland Indians, he followed with another 16-game hitting streak, giving …
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