Joe DiMaggio with his wife ... DiMaggio was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955, and his No. 5 jersey was retired by the Yankees. DiMaggio was married twice. His first wife was ...

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 ...

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.