Surprisingly, and perhaps due to having a relatively short career, DiMaggio was not elected to the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in his first year of eligibility, but was in his second eligible year.<ref>https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00014151.html</ref> His career was a relatively short 13 years, which kept him from becoming a leader in most career statistics. He missed the 1943, 1944, and 1945 seasons by serving honorably in [[World War II]], and was disadvantaged as a right-handed hitter in a ballpark built with a short right-field fence for the left-handed [[Babe Ruth]]. | Surprisingly, and perhaps due to having a relatively short career, DiMaggio was not elected to the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in his first year of eligibility, but was in his second eligible year.<ref>https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00014151.html</ref> His career was a relatively short 13 years, which kept him from becoming a leader in most career statistics. He missed the 1943, 1944, and 1945 seasons by serving honorably in [[World War II]], and was disadvantaged as a right-handed hitter in a ballpark built with a short right-field fence for the left-handed [[Babe Ruth]]. |