joe dimaggio hit 29 home runs in his rookie season.
joe dimaggio hit 29 home runs in his rookie season.
how many home runs did joe dimaggio hit in his rookie season?
29
notably, hall of famer joe dimaggio grew up in san francisco and played for the seals from october 1932 through 1935. in 1933, dimaggio hit safely in a record 61 straight games for the seals, with 169 rbi and a batting average of.340. another future major league player gus suhr had an incredible season for the seals in 1929, hitting .381 with 51 home runs and 177 rbi. other notable seals players included hall of famers earl averill, tony lazzeri, joe cronin and lefty gomez, as well as dominic dimaggio, vince dimaggio, albie pearson and ferris fain.
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for example, joe dimaggio was acutely handicapped by playing at yankee stadium. every time he batted in his home field during his entire career, he did so knowing that it was physically impossible for him to hit a home run to the half of the field directly in front of him. if you look at a baseball field from foul line to foul line, it has a 90-degree radius. from the power alley in left-center field (430 in joe's time) to the fence in deep right center field (407 ft), it is 45-degrees. and joe dimaggio never hit a single home run over the fences at yankee stadium in that 45-degree graveyard. it was just too far. joe was plenty strong; he routinely hit balls in the 425-foot range. but that just wasn't good enough in cavernous yankee stadium. like ruth, he benefited from a few easy homers each season due to the short foul line distances. but he lost many more than he gained by constantly hitting long fly outs toward center field. whereas most sluggers perform better on their home fields, dimaggio hit only 41 percent of his career home runs in the bronx. he hit 148 homers at yankee stadium. if he had hit the same exact pattern of batted balls with a typical modern stadium as his home, he would have belted about 225 homers during his home field career.
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