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Yankees History: No.5, Ladies man, joltin’ Joe DiMaggio, “The Yankee Clipper”

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In Martinez, California, in 1914, Joe DiMaggio was born to his immigrant parents Giuseppe and Rosalia DiMaggio. His father was a fisherman from Sicily. Joe was their first second born in America. He loved playing sandlot baseball but hated cleaning out his Father’s fishing boat, sighting the foul smell from dead fish. In his teen years, he played baseball and did odd jobs instead of finishing his schooling

By this time, his older brother Vince was playing minor league ball for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. At the time, the team needed a shortstop, so the older Brother Vince convinced his Manager to give Joe a try.