ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>ANNOUNCER: The greatest living ball player that will always be the Yankee Clipper, Jolting Joe DiMaggio.</s>JIM HUBER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's really difficult to put into words just the kind of dynamics that Joe DiMaggio brought to a baseball game. He would go out and make the difficult catch look very easy. At the plate, he was just automatic. He was just -- he had power, he had speed, he had -- he could hit for singles, he could, you know -- he could do whatever the situation called for. He was just a remarkable athlete.</s>GEORGE STEINBRENNER, OWNER, NEW YORK YANKEES: He was a great Yankee, the greatest of all living ball players.</s>TED WILLIAMS, BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER: Joe DiMaggio was the best right hand hitter I ever saw, I can tell you that.</s>HUBER: I think a lot of us were very curios about his relationship, his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. We saw it as probably the perfect fit between this glamorous woman from the West Coast and this glamorous man from the East Coast, and yet it never really made sense because while she was this public figure, he was a very private human being that didn't like to be in the spotlight very much. Ruth was in the process of dying when DiMaggio was just coming up and so he stepped into some awfully big shoes, but he filled them brilliantly.
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