At both the plate and in the field Joe DiMaggio was one of baseballs most graceful athletes. During his thirteen seasons with the New York Yankees he played in ten World Series and won nine world championships. For his career he was a twotime batting champion threetime Most Valuable Player hit 361 home runs and maintained a .325 batting average. His fiftysixconsecutivegame batting streak in 1941 has yet to be broken.DiMaggios baseball career began in 1932 when he filled in at shortstop at midseason for a minor league team. In 1934 he became the property of the New York Yankees which marked the beginning of his road toward greatness in the nations most famous city on one of the most hallowed fields in the sport. Off the field his life was marked by a famous marriage to and divorce from Marilyn Monroe a late1960s popular song and a somewhat unhappy retirement.On baseballs one hundredth anniversary in 1969 he was voted the greatest living player of the game and the Yankees erected a plaque to him among the memorials to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. On March 8 1999 at the age of eightyfour DiMaggio died after a fivemonth battle with cancer.In I Remember Joe DiMaggio dozens of the great ballplayers contemporaries teammates coaches fans friends and relatives recall their favorite memories and anecdotes of this man who became an icon of America. It is a warm entertaining and inspiring book about a man whose fame has been the stuff of legend for more than half a century.