But nearly 75 years before the connection between pop music icon Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce became a public obsession, Americans were similarly infatuated with the growing romance of ...

After a brassy, bouncy riff, Ms. Bonney starts the song by asking, “Hello, Joe, whaddaya know?” DiMaggio, voiced by clarinetist Abe Most, responds, “We need a hit, so here I go.” ...

DiMaggio later confides to a friend, "I’ve never been able to figure out what that song means." April: The Yankee Clipper begins two years of service as a coach and consultant for the Oakland A’s.

In 56 games, Joe DiMaggio hit .408/.463/.717, but this is hardly the point. As many have pointed out, for the entire 1941 season, Ted Williams hit .406/.553/.735.

They offered DiMaggio the same salary they had paid him in 1951 —$100,000. DiMaggio refused. In the afternoon of December 11, DiMaggio held a press conference.

“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” — the line in Simon and Garfunkel’s 1968 No. 1 hit “Mrs. Robinson” — annoyed the Yankee legend until he understood it. Paul Simon, a Yankee ...

This song, which chronicled DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, was co-written by New York disk jockey Alan Courtney and songwriter turned Jehovah’s Witness Minister Ben Homer.

As DiMaggio told "Sunday Morning"'s Robert Lipsyte in 1985: "I still don't know what the song means. I've never understood it fully, and I still don't!" Joe DiMaggio died in 1999 at the age of 84.

Ten years ago today, one of the most gifted baseball players to ever walk the earth died at the age of 84. Joe DiMaggio was able to play his entire 13-year career in Yankee pinstripes, a luxury ...