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Joe DiMaggio’s Job Was to Play for the Yankees, Not to Be Your Role Model

Joe DiMaggio was a baseball player. He wasn't the greatest baseball player of all time, but he did pretty well. Just a few players since DiMaggio retired in 1951 are considered his equal or better.

DiMaggio became an icon of icons. David Halberstam wrote DiMaggio was "the most celebrated athlete of his age, the best big game player of his era, and a baseball player who transcended the barriers of sports in terms of the breadth of his fame." 

Sports writing style and objectives were different in the 1930s and 1940s from what they are today.  The general attitude during most of DiMaggio's career was heroic coverage with few attempts at reporting personal information of any significance. 

Eventually, DiMaggio became ...

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