The 33-hour flight in the Spirit of St. Louis makes Lindbergh ... This comes after the loss of DiMaggio’s father less than a year earlier. October: Joe Louis is knocked out by heavyweight ...

1936 - Joe DiMaggio makes his debut with the Yankees ... 1953 - Bill Veeck says that he will sell his 80 percent stake of the St. Louis Browns for $2.475 million. 1965 - Jackie Robinson signs ...

From "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life" Editor's note: ESPN.com is running excerpts from Richard Ben Cramer's Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life recently published by Simon & Schuster. This is the third ...

"All this dignity that he carried himself with was really about his own worship and adoration for what Joe DiMaggio meant to other people," says New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte on ESPN ...