By the time the lights went on again, DiMaggio had vanished. Perhaps the best insight into why DiMaggio quit came from brother Tom: "He quit because he wasn’t Joe DiMaggio any more." ...

When Joe DiMaggio died, a 57-year old man with a gray pony-tail was one of the select few allowed to attend the family funeral. He was a casket-bearer that day, his face anonymous to the national ...

From "Joe DiMaggio ... and loud with song. (It was a new generation, but still "Roll Out the Barrel.") . . . DiMaggio had never sung along, and he didn't now. He sat on his stool, amid a ring ...

Joe DiMaggio ... died in 1962, DiMaggio sent roses for her grave but refused to talk about her. His swanky swing and classy countenance inspired wistful lines in literature and song, including ...