When Joe DiMaggio died, a 57-year old man with a gray pony-tail was one of the select few allowed to attend the family funeral. He was a casket-bearer that day, his face anonymous to the national ...

As a young man, Giuseppe DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio's father, was a fisherman on a small island off the coast of Sicily. Like so many other immigrants coming into the United States, it was economic ...

Betty Bonney, a singer who was a favorite of jitterbuggers and other musical hepcats of the swing era with hit recordings such as “Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio,” which celebrated the New York ...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Joe DiMaggio, the elegant Yankee Clipper whose 56-game hitting streak endures as one of the most remarkable records in baseball or any sport, died Monday at his home in Florida.

Singing with the Les Brown band, she celebrated the Yankee star’s 56-game hitting streak in 1941. She also performed on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows.” By Richard Sandomir Betty Bonney ...