TOKYO — Joe DiMaggio was a baseball player of class. He was a premier craftsman whose trade mark was the ability to produce gracefully under pressure. The key hit — often a decisive home run ...

Major League Baseball’s opening day is here and what better way to honor the day than to remember a famous baseball player and his time on the Central Coast. We are talking about Joe DiMaggio.

Joe DiMaggio before a New York Yankees ‘Old Timers Game’ c. 1982. Photo: Getty Images. ... At that point in his career, DiMaggio was nearly immortalized as a baseball star, ...