He gained the nickname "Iron Horse" for an amazing streak ... The second time was on the day he was honored on October 1, 1949 for Joe DiMaggio Day. The first was during Gehrig’s farewell ...

When Joe DiMaggio died, a 57-year old man with a gray pony-tail was one of the select few allowed to attend the family funeral. He was a casket-bearer that day, his face anonymous to the national ...

"All this dignity that he carried himself with was really about his own worship and adoration for what Joe DiMaggio meant to other people," says New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte on ESPN ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- His brother's words inside the church and the crowd's emotional farewell outside perfectly captured the two sides of Joe DiMaggio -- the quiet, dignified, reclusive man ...