How Did Joe Dimaggio's Impact On Sports

The Great Joe DiMaggio America’s past time, baseball, is the greatest sport created. Many players are included into the greats of baseball. Among the greats is an Italian American player by the name of Joe DiMaggio. Historical baseball players have a huge impact on modern game play. During the time that DiMaggio played, America was on the brink of war and some argue that he helped change the view of Italian Americans. Joe DiMaggio played thirteen years with the New York Yankees partly during World War II, attained nicknames from players and fans, and has several great accomplishments. First and foremost, Joe DiMaggio is one of the few players to play in the major leagues with only one team. DiMaggio spent thirteen years with the New York Yankees. In fact, during his thirteen years with the Yankees Joe and his team won ten pennant titles and nine World Series Championships. DiMaggio, as an Italian American, is faced with American fans during World War II. Carino says “DiMaggio, the Italian American player, even when strongly embracing his ethnicity, ceased to be an exotic other” (Carino, P. 142). Although the country will be at war DiMaggio continued to play to the best of his abilities for his team …show more content…
In thirteen years, DiMaggio became Most Valuable Player three times in his career. Along with this, Joe incredibly played in all thirteen all-star games. Being an all-star two years in a row is an accomplishment in its self, Joe did it every year of his career. Finally to finalize his accomplishments of “Joltin Joe” the baseball Hall of Fame inducted him in into class of 1955. In Dashing Dagos and Walloping Wops a writer Noel F. Busch described DiMaggio as “Baseball’s number one contemporary player” (Baldassaro, L. 103). Joe’s baseball excellence pushed him to become widely known as one of the best Italian baseball players of his