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Joe Dimaggio was a product of the depression. If you want to read what he really was like...check out the October 23, 2000 Newsweek Issue....The Dark Side of Dimaggio by Ben Cramer. "Behind the scenes, Joe Dimaggio trusted almost no one and spent his last years obsessed with money and privacy."

A sample of what is in the article....Any tickets for baseball games/All-Star/World Series he ever received--he sold through a banker who deposited the money in his account.....50 plus sets of brand new golf clubs/shirts, etc. which were given to him when playing Pro-Am tournaments in the 60's/70's were found in his garage upon his death neatly lined up in rows but full of dust having never been moved....when the earthquake hit in 1989 in San Francisco, he went to his residence and went upstairs--calmly came down with a garbage bag--went to the Presido Club to stay for the night as a precaution.. was an honorary memberthere so he did not have to pay for anything--sleptthe night there with the garbage bag which in fact held six hundred thousand dollars cash! He was truly a product of the depression.

This photo was taken at the Sun Times show on 11/17/96. He never took the shades off or had a pic with anyone or said a word...only once that I saw yelling at an older die-hard lady who seemed to be a devote Yankee fan for holding up the line because she was taking too many pictures while getting closer and closer to the table! That lady went away with a different impression of Joe D. and so did many other people that day.