Biography of Joe DiMaggio

Stardom with passion

November 24, 1914
March 9, 1999
Joe DiMaggio, whose real name is Joseph Paul DiMaggio was born on 24 November 1914 in the fishing village of Martinez, California, Usa. His parents were Italian immigrants from Isola delle femmine, Palermo, and Joe grew up in a family rather numerous: divide the small house composed of just four rooms with four brothers and four sisters. Due to the difficult economic conditions of the family, Joe is forced to help his father and brothers who run a fishery. But do the fisherman did not like him at all, so take advantage of the opportunity offered to him by one of his brothers, Vince, who recommended him to the Manager of the baseball team where he plays. Joe begins to play seventeen years at a salary of $ 250 per month. He himself gave way to declare: "to score a winning joke, it becomes more important to eat, drink or sleep".
In 1934 it almost seems that his career has come to an end, when it breaks all the ligaments in his left knee while getting off of a bus to go to dinner with her sister. Despite the incident, the New York Yankees scout is convinced that Joe DiMaggio could recover from injury and prove his talent on the field. After passing a test at the knee, gets a contract of 25 thousand dollars; We are in 1936. When he finally appears on the field the Yankees welcome 25 thousand flags hoisted by his countrymen tricolor Italian-Americans. The great success among the public of fans won him a series of affectionate nicknames including "Joltin Joe" for the extreme power of his jokes, and "The Yankee Clipper". The latter nickname he was given from a sports Arch Mcdonald in 1939 for tore speed of his compare jokes to the new plane of Pan American Airlines.
Joe DiMaggio reciprocates the affection of the fans winning the Yankees nine titles in 13 years. His Jersey with the number nine, then replaced with the five, becomes the most desired by all American kids, and Joe accumulates sports records out of sports records. In January 1937 he met actress Dorothy Arnold on the set of "Manhattan Merry go round", where Joe has a small part. They were married in 1939 and had a son: Joseph Paul III. DiMaggio continues to play until the age of 36 years, always and only with the Yankees. After leaving his racing career, back to the world of baseball as Manager of the Oakland Athletics. In 1969 is called "the greatest living baseball player", a title won following a big popular survey that pays homage to its sports records: throughout his career, Joe scored well 2,214 hits winners! His private life, like sport, attracts the attention of the public especially after meeting with Marilyn Monroe, who initially refuses even to meet the Grand Champion. However, they eventually meet up in 1954 at San Francisco City Hall, and it is love at first sight. The wedding unfortunately lasted only nine months.
The cause of the continual bickering seems to have poor understanding of Joe for the type of work of Marilyn, and the constant jealousy caused by lifestyle. The straw that breaks the camel's back is the famous scene of the film "the seven year itch" by Billy Wilder, in which Marilyn assists her skirt to rise up impotent above the knee. After breaking up with Marilyn Monroe, are attributed to the former baseball player a series of girlfriends, and gossip magazines do repeatedly announce the marriage. In 1957 he rumbles that Joe is about to marry the beautiful Miss America Marian Mcknight; in reality you never married, remaining deeply attached to Marilyn, and arriving back in his life after the end of the wedding of the actress with the playwright Arthur Miller. It's Joe DiMaggio to secure the resignation of Marilyn from a psychiatric clinic in 1961.
Marilyn joined him as well in Florida. The two declare themselves to be just friends, although rumors about their remarriage spread immediately. Is the son of Joe and talk on the phone with Marilyn on the night of his suicide, and report that the actress has seemed quiet. During the funeral of the great champion confesses his love again and begins to send daily at his grave six red roses; will keep this romantic habit until the date of his death. In 1998 Joe DiMaggio was hospitalized for lung cancer and remains in hospital for a long hospital stay, which lasts 99 days: 9 March of 1999, dies at the age of 84 years.
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