A Selfish Wife and a Selfish Death

Joe DiMaggio The game of baseball has many heroes that have played or are still playing but only handful are legends. A quote from the movie Sandlot says “there are heroes and legends, heroes get remembered but legends never die.” This is true for many of the players in the game of baseball that we see as legends; it’s just we call them influential players. These are the guys that have changed the game of baseball in anyway possible. It can be from winning a World Series and being the MVP, throwing a no hitter or perfect game, or having a record that can’t be broken. Legends don’t come into the game of baseball very often but there are heroes coming in the game just about every year. On November 25, 1914 in Martinez, California a legend was born. Joe was the eighth child to be born to his parents Giuseppe and Rosalie DiMaggio, who were immigrants from Sicily, Italy who moved to the United States in 1898. Joe’s father and ancestors before him were fisherman; however, Joe never was interested in fishing. Joe did not want to follow his father’s footsteps as a fisherman. So, he decided to go with this brother to San Francisco to play baseball. With Joe deciding to go play baseball Joe became the inspiration to the character, Santiago in the book, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, some say Joe DiMaggio’s childhood was shaped in this line. “I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing; the old man said, they say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.” (Hemingway 8). As this quote stated that because Joe was raised in a family of fisherman, but didn’t become a fisherman, it showed had determination to follow his dreams. Joe was an inspiration to many.
Joe was and still is a baseball player that kids all over the world strive to be like, with the things he did on the field, off the field and with a record that no one will probably ever break. However, many believe this does not make him the best Yankee of all