During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. ĭiMaggio was a three-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. Born to Italian immigrants in California, he is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time and is best known for setting the record for the longest hitting streak in baseball (56 games from May 15 – July 16, 1941), which still stands today. Joseph Paul DiMaggio ( Italian: Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio Novem– March 8, 1999), nicknamed ' Joltin' Joe', ' the Yankee Clipper' and ' Joe D.', was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees.
September 30, 1951, for the New York Yankees
