'''Joe "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio''' (1914-1999) was a [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] baseball player for the [[New York Yankees]] from 1936 to 1951. He holds the record for number of consecutive games with a hit (56), in 1941, which is considered one of the greatest achievements in all of sports. Joe was married briefly to [[Marilyn Monroe]] and devastated when she divorced him. Marilyn's good friend [[Jane Russell]] said Marilyn was planning to remarry Joe when she prematurely and unexpectedly died at age 36 in 1962.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-439026/Jane-Russell-My-friend-Marilyn-did-kill-herself.html</ref> Joe sent fresh flowers twice or three times every week to Marilyn's grave for decades after she died. | '''Joe "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio''' (1914-1999) was a [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] baseball player for the [[New York Yankees]] from 1936 to 1951. He holds the record for number of consecutive games with a hit (56), in 1941, which is considered one of the greatest achievements in all of sports. Joe was married briefly to [[Marilyn Monroe]] and devastated when she divorced him. Marilyn's good friend [[Jane Russell]] said Marilyn was planning to remarry Joe when she prematurely and unexpectedly died at age 36 in 1962.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-439026/Jane-Russell-My-friend-Marilyn-did-kill-herself.html</ref> Joe sent fresh flowers twice or three times every week to Marilyn's grave for decades after she died. |