His fellow baseball legends--and fellow Yankees--Mantle, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio are also perennial blue chippers.
In reality, Jeter falls somewhere between DiMaggio and Mantle and so should his compensation.
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Unlike his near contemporaries, Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, Greenberg was not a natural athlete.
But to me the life of DiMaggio was always more interesting than the myth.
Engleberg hired attorneys to remove DiMaggio's sealed records from the custody of the hospital.
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Mr. HESTON (actor, Reading): I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said.
Removed from the nation's largest media markets, he was never as famous as Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams.
And James ranks Musial ahead of Tris Speaker, Hank Aaron (who is alive), Joe DiMaggio, and Lou Gehrig.
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Distant from the nation's largest media markets, he never was as famous as Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams.
According to the hotel's website, famous patrons over the years have included Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, Salvador Dali and John Lennon.
His 2, 715 career hits were more than Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams got.
Joe DiMaggio wasn't even a first ballot Hall of Famer, of all things.
Joe DiMaggio, a lifetime .325 hitter, batted .271 in his 11 Fall Classics.
It was like talking to people about where they were when Kennedy was shot, the time they met DiMaggio.
Think of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio or Lou Gehrig bats and balls as Hamptons real estate or blue chip stocks.
I've likened it to being the man the Yankees sent out in center field after Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.
W.A.A., Joe DiMaggio first appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot in 1945 where he earned only 0.4% of the vote.
And Cramer's warts-and-all DiMaggio biography, though a bestseller, was slammed for the author's blunt handling of the New York Yankee hero.
It is one that has sometimes plagued celebrities like Joe Dimaggio.
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The possibility that Graf and DiMaggio's records may never be broken only speaks to how much competition in tennis and baseball has strengthened.
Yankees Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto appeared in ads for the Money Store and fellow Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio made commercials for Mr. Coffee.
The judge ordered the DiMaggio record mix-up to be disclosed to the jury when the child abuse trial of Kathleen Bush resumes Monday afternoon.
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And that's for a reportedly bland set of notes in which DiMaggio does little more than complain about signing autographs and the cost of food.
Here you'll find Gay Talese on Joe DiMaggio, John Updike on Ted Williams' last at-bat, Grantland Rice on the death of Babe Ruth, and more.
In truth, you have reached the apex of the profession if your legacy rests comfortably next to the likes of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra and Mantle.
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The writing and research took five years, and Cramer was nearing the finish when DiMaggio died -- prompting many of his sources to come forth with new admissions.
The building where Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio et al. became legends?
Meanwhile, she faced ridicule for her ambitions while enduring torment over the roles, public and private, into which her much ballyhooed marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller thrust her.
In a sport obsessed with parity, running the NFL table is regarded as one of the great, possibly-unmatchable athletic accomplishments, equivalent to DiMaggio's 56, Ripken's 2632, or Tony Hawk's 900.
For this reason, some of the game's greatest players Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams have always been in the shadow of a generally average player from Fargo, North Dakota, Roger Maris.
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