American League - New York Yankees 1946-1951
A New York Times article, written in September of 1949, reported that Joe had a mild form of pneumonia and would miss the World Series against the Red Sox. October 1st was also designated as DiMaggio Day in his honor. The article also reports that this illness is the second time this year that the $90,000 salaried player has been out of the lineup. He had missed the first 65 games of the season due to a heel operation, performed the previous winter, that was not healing as
expected.
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