Joe DiMaggio is the only other player to reach those plateaus in his first six seasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Not that DiMaggio is the only flawed baseball giant wrapped in red, white and blue myth.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Bonds' spark is like 'Joltin' Joe'] Reference

SIMON: This 1966 piece that gives the title to this anthology, "The Silent Season of a Hero," by Joe DiMaggio, is still painful to read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sports Reporting Hero Speaks Of 'Silent Season'] Reference

DiMaggio is having a good chuckle today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balls & Strikes] Reference

And DiMaggio walked in and saw someone extra there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

But in 1998, the Yankees didn't need a DiMaggio Day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe's Last Deal] Reference

After a decent interval, DiMaggio said he had to leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

Tickets were a fat five figures for DiMaggio every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

Junior was a loss, and DiMaggio did not talk about loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

To be precise, he couldn't be DiMaggio on the ballfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

This was the biggest payday he'd ever attempted for DiMaggio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe's Last Deal] Reference

But Bracco was one of those guys who'd do anything for DiMaggio.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

Steinbrenner didn't really want a Joe DiMaggio Day that September.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe's Last Deal] Reference

They'd walk into the place with DiMaggio ... and people went crazy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

For it wasn't that DiMaggio was often good, he was almost never bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

By that time, the fabled DiMaggio arm held only one good throw a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

But Ben knew that: dealings with DiMaggio were, by nature, confidential.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

Why not save DiMaggio Day for next year -- say, early in the '99 season?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe's Last Deal] Reference

"Tell them," said DiMaggio, "if it wasn't for them, she'd still be here.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

The lawyer said DiMaggio would be hospitalized at least three more weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe's Last Deal] Reference

That got DiMaggio up in a hurry: Sixty thousand fans, on the field with him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

Morris had been working to create an official DiMaggio baseball for three years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe's Last Deal] Reference

Those three words on the scoreboard: no capitalization for the M in DiMaggio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe's Last Deal] Reference

DiMaggio set the standard for the game, when the game was the standard for the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

Or you could talk about the only attribute that Joe would bring up: DiMaggio-as-Winner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

DiMaggio wanted Langella to find a contractor -- right now -- get him over to the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

Or you could talk -- as the voters did, at that dinner -- about what DiMaggio couldn't do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

Torre had come along to the mike to read Mayor Giuliani's proclamation for Joe DiMaggio Day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe's Last Deal] Reference

DiMaggio -- like no one else who'd ever played the game -- was brilliant at five out of five.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

In those 56 games DiMaggio hit .408 with 91 hits, 35 for extra bases, including 15 home runs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Season Of '41] Reference

DiMaggio was our first modern media star -- the first public person for the nation as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

If the neighbors had known, they would have understood: DiMaggio had his own boat -- his alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

The guys in the mail room can't believe that DiMaggio not only trailed Williams, but Musial too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Boys Of Summer] Reference

Joe sat Ben in the front room, across from the giant oil of DiMaggio in the double-breasted suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

When DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees, in '36, baseball stood above any other national endeavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

Competition spurred columns -- gossip, nightlife -- what DiMaggio did off-hours was news, now, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference

And so in the middle of some sweet, if bland reminiscences, DiMaggio, now 85, departed from the official script.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: A Final Farewell] Reference

They would have known -- even in an earthquake -- DiMaggio would have his own destiny, apparently blessed from above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference