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Joe DiMaggio’s Streak, Games 23 & 24: DiMaggio on Fire as NY Heads Home

class="Headline">Games 23 & 24: June 8, 1941

This was getting to be serious.

A 24-game hitting streak was the longest in the league in a couple of years and since it was a New York Yankee writing the script, 12 Gotham-area newspapers were happy to follow along.

In San Francisco, the Call-Bulletin had a front-page feature called the DiMag-O-Log. It followed the exploits of the three homegrown DiMaggios. Poor Vince was sentenced to the struggling Pirates while Boston’s Dom and New York’s Joe were in the limelight—and played each other 22 times a season.

The family restaurant, DiMaggio’s Grotto at Fisherman’s Wharf, ...

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