DiMaggio Family History & Genealogy

Rosalie (Mercurio) DiMaggio was born on February 5, 1878 in Isola delle Femmine, Sicily Italy, and died at age 73 years old on June 18, 1951 in San Francisco, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosalie (Mercurio) DiMaggio.

Frances (DiMaggio) Petromilli was born on July 25, 1910 in Martinez, California United States, and died at age 62 years old on November 20, 1972. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Frances Agnes (DiMaggio) Petromilli.

Michael DiMaggio was born on June 17, 1908 in Martinez, California United States, and died at age 45 years old on May 30, 1954 in Bodega Bay. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Michael Frank DiMaggio .

Marie DiMaggio was born on June 17, 1906 in Martinez, California United States, and died at age 90 years old on September 21, 1996 in San Francisco. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marie Agnes DiMaggio.

Thomas DiMaggio was born on January 12, 1905 in Martinez, California United States, and died at age 75 years old on September 19, 1980 in San Francisco. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Arnold DiMaggio.

Mamie (DiMaggio) Jacobsen was born on September 25, 1903 in Martinez, California United States, and died at age 88 years old on January 26, 1992 in Colma. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mamie Scrivani (DiMaggio) Jacobsen.

Nellie (DiMaggio) Hellquist was born on September 11, 1898 at Isola delle Femmine in Sicilia Italy, and died at age 84 years old on May 14, 1983 in San Francisco, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Nellie (DiMaggio) Hellquist.

Joseph DiMaggio was born on August 22, 1872 in Isola delle Femmine, Sicily Italy, and died at age 76 years old on May 3, 1949 in San Francisco, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph DiMaggio.

Vincent Paul DiMaggio was born on September 6, 1912 in Martinez, Contra Costa County, California United States, and died at age 74 years old on October 3, 1986 at North Hollywood in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Vincent Paul DiMaggio.

Joe DiMaggio Center fielder. Born: November 25, 1914. Martinez, California Died: March 8, 1999 (aged 84) Hollywood, Florida. Batted: Right. Threw: Right. MLB debut May 3, 1936, for the New York Yankees. Last MLB appearance: September 30, 1951, for the New York Yankees. MLB statistics Batting average .325 Hits 2,214 Home runs 361 Runs batted in 1,537 Teams New York Yankees (1936–1942, 1946–1951) Career highlights and awards 13× All-Star (1936–1942, 1946–1951) 9× World Series champion (1936–1939, 1941, 1947, 1949–1951) 3× AL MVP (1939, 1941, 1947) 2× AL batting champion (1939, 1940) 2× AL home run leader (1937, 1948) 2× AL RBI leader (1941, 1948) MLB record 56-game hitting streak New York Yankees No. 5 retired Monument Park honoree Major League Baseball All-Century Team Member of the National Induction 1955 Joseph Paul DiMaggio[a] (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born to Italian immigrants in California, he is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15–July 16, 1941), a record that still stands.[1] DiMaggio was a three-time Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. His nine career World Series rings is second only to fellow Yankee Yogi Berra, who won ten. At the time of his retirement after the 1951 season, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken during the baseball's centennial year of 1969.[2] His brothers Vince (1912–1986) and Dom (1917–2009) also were major league center fielders. DiMaggio is widely known for his marriage and lifelong devotion to Marilyn Monroe. Early life Joseph Paul DiMaggio was born on November 25, 1914, in Martinez, California,[3] the sixth of seven children born to Italian immigrants Giuseppe (1872–1949) and Rosalia (née Lucido; 1878–1951) DiMaggio, from Isola delle Femmine, Sicily. He was named Paolo after his father Giuseppe's favorite saint, Saint Paul. Giuseppe was a fisherman, as were generations of DiMaggios before him. According to statements from Joe's brother Tom to biographer Maury Allen, Rosalia's father wrote to her with the advice that Giuseppe could earn a better living in California than in their native Isola delle Femmine, a northwestern Sicilian village in the province of Palermo. After being processed on Ellis Island, Giuseppe worked his way across America, eventually settling near Rosalia's father in Pittsburg, California, on the east side of the San Francisco Bay Area. After four years, he earned enough money to send to Italy for Rosalia and their daughter, who was born after he had left for the United States. Giuseppe hoped that his five sons would become fishermen. DiMaggio recalled that he would do anything to get out of cleaning his father's boat, as the smell of dead fish nauseated him. Giuseppe called him "lazy" and "good-for-nothing." DiMaggio did not finish his education at Galileo High School and instead worked odd jobs including hawking newspapers, stacking boxes at a warehouse and working at an orange juice plant. DiMaggio was playing semi-pro ball when older brother Vince, playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), talked his manager into letting DiMaggio fill in at shortstop. Joe DiMaggio made his professional debut on October 1, 1932. From May 27 to July 25, 1933, he hit safely in 61 consecutive games, a PCL-record,[6] and second-longest in all of Minor League Baseball history. "Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak," he said. "Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping." In 1934 DiMaggio suffered a career-threatening knee injury when he tore ligaments while stepping out of a jitney. Scout Bill Essick of the New York Yankees, convinced that the injury would heal, pestered his club to give him another look. After DiMaggio passed a physical examination in November, the Yankees purchased his contract for $50,000 and five players. He remained with the Seals for the 1935 season and batted .398 with 154 runs batted in (RBIs) and 34 home runs. His team won the 1935 PCL title, and DiMaggio was named the league's Most Valuable Player. Major league career Seven of the American League's 1937 All-Star players: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg. All seven were inducted into the Hall of Fame. DiMaggio made his major league debut on May 3, 1936, batting ahead of Lou Gehrig in the lineup. The Yankees had not been to the World Series since 1932, but they won the next four Fall Classics. Over the course of his 13-year Major League career, DiMaggio led the Yankees to nine World Series championships, where he trails only Yogi Berra (10) in that category. DiMaggio set a franchise record for rookies in 1936 by hitting 29 home runs. DiMaggio accomplished the feat in 138 games. His record stood for over 80 years until it was shattered by Aaron Judge, who tallied 52 homers in 2017. In 1939 DiMaggio was nicknamed the "Yankee Clipper" by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner.

Dominic DiMaggio was born on February 12, 1917 in San Francisco, California United States, and died at age 92 years old on May 8, 2009 in Marion, MA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Dominic DiMaggio.

Joseph DiMaggio III was born on October 23, 1941 in Staten Island, Richmond County, New York United States to Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnoldine Olson, and died at age 57 years old on August 7, 1999 in Antioch, Contra Costa County, CA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph Paul DiMaggio III.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rosa Parlanti.

Deborah (Yogerst) Dimaggio was born on March 1 to Marlynne, Marylyn (Reehling) Bova and John Leo Yogerst, and had siblings Karen Hull and Cheryl (Yogerst). Deborah Dimaggio died in February 2024. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Deborah (Yogerst).

Josephine Dimaggio of Wyandotte, Michigan United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Josephine Dimaggio.

John William DiMaggio was born on September 4, 1968 in North Plainfield, Somerset County, New Jersey United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John William DiMaggio.

Salvatore J Dimaggio of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on March 29, 1922, and died at age 69 years old on November 30, 1991.

Joseph A Dimaggio of Hazelwood, Saint Louis County, MO was born on March 29, 1923, and died at age 74 years old on August 25, 1997.

Joseph A Dimaggio of Metairie, Jefferson County, Louisiana was born on December 12, 1915, and died at age 70 years old in July 1986.

Joseph J Dimaggio of Huntington, Suffolk County, NY was born on November 10, 1920, and died at age 75 years old on March 15, 1996.