Joe DiMaggio had a 56-game hitting streak, while Ted Williams equally owned opposing pitchers, eventually finishing the year with a .406 batting average that no one has topped since. Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Hugh Mulcahy also became the first major leaguer drafted into the United States Army...
DiMaggio, who had a son with his first wife, never remarried and his attorney Morris Engelberg, who was among those at his bedside when he died in 1999, told Vanity Fair that the athlete's last words were, "'I'll finally get to see Marilyn.'" Courtesy of Netflix ...
“We’ll drive in and shoot some craps, see a show and say hello to Joe DiMaggio--he’s in Reno at the Riverside Hotel,” he announced. I looked at him and felt a chill. Cobb, sitting there haggard and unshaven in his pajamas and a fuzzy old green bathrobe at 1 o’clock in t...