Sports
Joe DiMaggio Jr., the only child of baseball great Joe DiMaggio, died late Friday at a hospital in the Northern California town of Antioch, apparently of natural causes, hospital officials said Saturday.
Aug. 8, 1999
Baseball: DiMaggio surprises his doctors again by coming out of coma, but prognosis is dim.
Dec. 12, 1998
Obituaries
Joe DiMaggio, the majestic “Yankee Clipper” who played baseball with a grace and elegance matched by few others and in the process became an American icon, died Monday at his home in Hollywood, Fla.
March 9, 1999
World & Nation
Memory of boy’s smile inspires grieving parents to help hundreds of other children
Nov. 30, 2010
Memorial: Some want to put his name on the park where he honed his baseball skills. To the family, that’s not big enough.
April 5, 2000
Archives
Three Miami Dolphins who’d heard of Peyton McCaughey’s situation spent part of Sunday at the hospital with the boy.
Sept. 7, 2015
You know, in the press box sometimes, we old-timers used to have a bit of fun with the young guys on the beat.
July 7, 1994
This column by the late Jim Murray originally was published in the July 7, 1994 edition of The Times. * You know, in the press box sometimes, we old-timers used to have a bit of fun with the young guys on the bet.
Science & Medicine
Surgeons used a bone from a cadaver to save the cancerous right arm of a 6-year-old boy in a pioneering transplant that will enable the limb to grow as he does.
June 22, 1999