Perhaps the best-known baseball this side of Babe Ruth was a fella born in Martinez, California on November 25, 1914 named Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio. To the baseball world, he is known as Joe DiMaggio1. There are hundreds of places you can go to learn about the stats of Jumpin' Joe and we will cover a few of them, but the stories within the story of Joe D. are truly what makes him an interesting figure in the chronicles of sports.

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