signs a contract with the hometown Yankees and becomes a superstar, until felled by the fatal disease that now bears his name.

Within five years after Stengel’s blunt advice, the “Scooter” had nailed down the shortstop job with the New York Yankees. Last season, at the advanced shortstop age of 32, the Scooter was ...

Even in his later years, Joe DiMaggio was never too far away from the spotlight of Yankee Stadium. June 28-30, 1949 -- Though DiMaggio underwent surgery for bone spurs in his right heel last ...