Some of his collectible items included a signed Joe DiMaggio jersey and oddly, four World Series rings from the New York Yankees. The rings are from the 1996,1998,1999, and 2000 championship teams.

Singing with the Les Brown band, she celebrated the Yankee star’s 56-game hitting streak in 1941. She also performed on Sid ...

October: On October 23, Dorothy gives birth to Joe Jr., 10 days after Paul Simon (of Simon and Garfunkel) is born in Newark, New Jersey. February: DiMaggio enlists in the U.S. Army in San Francisco.

Close by in New York in the 1950s, DiMaggio never attended one of his boy’s football games while Joe Jr. was at New Jersey’s prestigious Lawrenceville School. Joe Jr.’s ex-wife Sue said of ...