Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees

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Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees. Title: Joe DiMaggio salutes his bat. Date Created/Published: c1941 Dec. 15. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Photograph shows Joe DiMaggio, of the New York Yankees, wearing suit, sitting in a chair, facing slightly right, about to kiss his signature baseball bat. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-18794 (digital file from original photographic print) LC-USZ62-76272 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright office (checked 3/17/88). Call Number: BIOG FILE - DiMaggio, Joe, 1914- [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Title: Plenty of basehits in these bats. Washington D.C., July 7. A million dollar base-ball flesh is represented in these sluggers of the two All- Star Teams which met in the 1937 game at Griffith Stadium today. Left to right: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charley Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg, 7/7/37. Creator(s): Harris & Ewing, photographer. Date Created/Published: 1937 July 7. Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-22989 (digital file from original negative)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LC-H22- D-1887 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

July 16, 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.

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