Actually he was from the sf Bay Area. My dad took me to see his last game and I have been a yankee fan since! Any redo of this today would not be close to what that was: a bio hazard mess brought to us by the counter culture crowd of the 60s. I hope it goes nowhere
DiMaggio was a class act toward genuine fans. My mother was in a Disney hotel lobby and recognized DiMaggio standing by himself. So she went up to him and introcuced herself as a former New York girl who was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and saw him play for the Yankees. They reminisced together about that era and several games that my mother attended. DiMaggio then saw that his party had arrived, so he asked if my mother had any sons who played baseball. And then he wrote out a personalized autographs for my two brothers in Little League.