Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez ... Beach and achieved regional fame playing for the storied San Francisco Seals of the old Pacific Coast League. He played at Seals Stadium for three years ...

Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, born on Nov. 25, 1914, in Martinez, Calif., was purchased from the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League on Nov. 21, 1934, by the New York Yankees for $ ...

If you counted his years in the army and his three years with the Seals ... best insight into why DiMaggio quit came from brother Tom: "He quit because he wasn’t Joe DiMaggio any more." ...

Joe DiMaggio hit over .300 11 times and won two ... Joe spent three seasons with the San Francisco Seals, and set a Pacific Coast League record by hitting safely in 61 consecutive games as a ...

Joe DiMaggio, the elegant Yankee Clipper whose ... He had been a star with the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and once had a 61-game hitting streak. But a knee injury scared ...

In fact, she stood not far from where Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio once patrolled center field at a ballpark that is long gone and now largely forgotten: Seals Stadium. Once, it was the land of ...

Joe DiMaggio was not the first major American hero ... He became a star for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League in the early 1930s. Because there were no major-league teams on ...

Former major league player Frank “Lefty” O’Doul, in his first season as manager with the San Francisco Seals, is flanked by his two outfield aces, Joe Martyn, left, and Joe DiMaggio ...

In the DiMaggio family, Joe got most of the gifts ... Vince was playing for the Seals in 1932 when he persuaded the manager to give a tryout to his 18-year-old brother, a high school dropout.

But there was hesitation around the DiMaggio household and Vince never went; instead he played ball with the San Francisco Seals and sportswriters misspelled his name. It was DeMaggio until Joe ...