Home / Birthday profiles / Dom DiMaggio
Portrait of Dom DiMaggio

Birthday profile

Dom DiMaggio

Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (died 2009)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
February 12, 1917
Died
May 8, 2009
Zodiac sign
Aquarius
Birth year
1917

About Dom DiMaggio

Dominic Paul DiMaggio, nicknamed "the Little Professor", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 11-year baseball career for the Boston Red Sox (1940–1953). DiMaggio was the youngest of three brothers who each became major league center fielders, the others being Joe and Vince. His 34-game hitting streak in 1949 remains a record for the major-league Red Sox. For the 1939 season, DiMaggio recorded a.360 batting average. After missing three years serving in the Navy in World War II, DiMaggio returned in 1946 with his best season yet, batting.316 to place fifth in the league, and coming in ninth in the MVP voting as Boston won its first pennant in 28 years.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Dom DiMaggio timeline

  1. For the 1939 season, DiMaggio recorded a.360 batting average.
  2. After missing three years serving in the Navy in World War II, DiMaggio returned in 1946 with his best season yet, batting.316 to place fifth in the league, and coming in ninth in the MVP voting as Boston won its first pennant in 28 years.
  3. His 34-game hitting streak in 1949 remains a record for the major-league Red Sox.

The world when Dom DiMaggio was born

Dom DiMaggio was born in 1917. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1917

  • Best-selling book"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" – H.G. Wells

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentProfessional sports curtailed as America enters World War I
  • Top headlineUS enters World War I
  • Technology milestoneFirst practical military use of sonar
  • World population~1.77B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population100.8M

1917 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Dom DiMaggio's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19172026
Gas$0.25$3.45/gal
Population100.8M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, MLB, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.