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 1951 Berk Ross JOE DiMAGGIO Vintage Baseball Card BVG 4 US $209.95 |
 1939 Gum Playball Joe DiMaggio Baseball Card US $104.50 |
 Leaf baseball card Joe DiMaggio 1948 US $475.00 |
 Joe DiMaggio Baseball Cards Autograph PINNACLE Framed 5 US $2,500.00 |
Starting up your own baseball collection to honor the legends? Don’t forget to keep a couple of Joe DiMaggio baseball cards in stock to complete your collection!
Joseph Paul “Joe” DiMaggio (Born November 25, 1914 – died March 8, 1999) was born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr, and is hailed as baseball’s greatest living player in the 1969 professional baseball centennial poll – earning him the nickname “The Yankee Clipper” and undying fame among the likes of Yogi Berra, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Arthur Miller and even the esteemed Babe Ruth himself.
Joe DiMaggio’s three Most Valuable Player awards, thirteen All-Star games, 361 home runs (fifth-most home runs in a career) and .579 slugging percentage (the sixth-highest in history) are impressive enough statistics. Yet it was the days between May 15 and July 16, 1941, that Joe DiMaggio’s mark on baseball history would be made.
It was at this time that he made his infamous 56-game hitting streak, which is a record that still stands to this day.
How the “Yankee Clipper” could have pulled off a perfect record in 56 games is a complete anomaly when statistics comes into play. On the other hand, it could be simply attributed to everything going the way Joe wanted it to go. Whatever the case may be, Joe’s 56-game hitting streak doesn’t look like it’ll be broken anytime soon.
However, Joe’s fame and professional skills would have shined even brighter if not for the disadvantages that right-handed hitters have in the Yankee Stadium. While left-handed players like Babe Ruth made their fortunes with the forgiving right field, the deep left and center fields proved to make it extremely difficult for right-handers like Joe DiMaggio to get a home run. The left-center field goes back at a staggering 457 feet, which is nightmarish when compared to the 380 feet left-center fields of most other baseball parks.
His performance away from his home field proves this point. 148 home runs in 3,360 bats at home compared to 213 home runs at 3,461 bats away, a slugging percentage of .546 at home and a slugging percentage of .610 away, an on-base percentage of .391 at home and an on-base percentage of .405 away, 720 RBI at home and 817 RBI away. If Joe DiMaggio had been in another field, who knows just how high the “Yankee Clipper” could have climbed in the world of professional baseball.
All this simply boils down to Joe DiMaggio being one of the greatest baseball players to ever grace the field, which in turn cranks up the demand – and the prices- of Joe DiMaggio baseball cards all over the world. This is especially true for vintage and autographed cards circa 1933 to 1941. This is especially true of cards during his rookie years, which can easily run up to the tens of thousands of dollars if you can manage to find one in mint condition.
Just make sure that you get your cards from a reliable source if you want them to be worth their value.