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Joe DiMaggio

American baseball player (1914–1999)

Not to be confused with Joe Maggio.

Baseball player

Joe DiMaggio

DiMaggio with the New York Yankees in 1939

Center fielder
Born:(1914-11-25)November 25, 1914
Martinez, California, U.S.
Died: March 8, 1999(1999-03-08) (aged 84)
Hollywood, Florida, U.S.

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

May 3, 1936, for the New York Yankees
September 30, 1951, for the New York Yankees
Batting average.325
Hits2,214
Home runs361
Runs batted in1,537
Stats at Baseball Reference 
As player

As coach

  • 13× All-Star (1936–1942, 1946–1951)
  • 9× World Series champion (1936–1939, 1941, 1947, 1949–1951)
  • 3× AL MVP (1939, 1941, 1947)
  • 2× AL batting champion (1939, 1940)
  • 2× AL home run leader (1937, 1948)
  • 2× AL RBI leader (1941, 1948)
  • MLB record 56-game hitting streak
  • New York Yankees No. 5 retired
  • Monument Park honoree
  • Major League Baseball All-Century Team
Induction1955
Vote88.8% (fourth ballot)

Joseph Paul DiMaggio (;

Rosalie Maggio

Read Rosalie's obituary here.

Rosalie Maggio was the award-winning author of 24 books, including the two-million-copy bestseller How to Say It; a French-language biography about daredevil Marie Marvingt; books on biased language; two children’s books and hundreds of children’s stories; and one of the largest collections of quotations by women. Published by McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Morrow Junior, Beacon Books, and others, her books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Hungarian, and Arabic. Featured as a “Bold Type” in Ms. magazine, her work has been discussed in, among others, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center's Guide to Fair and Accurate Language is the source of numerous language discussions on the WMC site as well as the glossary of Name It. Change It: the WMC Media Guide to Gender Neutral Coverage of Women Candidates and Politicians.

Chris Maggio’s Great American Facade

In a new body of work, the photographer confronts the postelection U.S. landscape with dark humor.

Chris Maggio, Untitled, from the series Bored on the 4th of July, 2017
© and courtesy the artist

Spend enough time on the internet and you will come across a Chris Maggio photograph. It will probably be uncredited, torn from its original context, and memed endlessly. He’s OK with that, and in fact, he takes pride in it. His newly released series, Bored on the 4th of July(2017), blends fact and an extrapolation of truth in the postelection landscape. This ambiguity forces the viewer to confront the absurdities of American culture—what does it say about America that, within these images, it’s hard to discern where fact ends and imagination begins?

Will Matsuda: A lot of photographers have tried to address the current political climate, but these projects often feel heavy-handed. Your new project is both fresh and cutting. Why did you make Bored on the 4th of July?

Chris Maggio: I really appreciate that! I wanted to make a

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