The 25-year-old was dining out with her agent, Norman Brokaw, when William Frawley ... ‘Who’s Joe D?’ She had no idea who Joe DiMaggio was. She obviously wasn’t a baseball fan.

Though they were only married for around nine months, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were among the ... introduced by I Love Lucy star William Frawley, who played wacky neighbor Fred Mertz.

The 25-year-old was dining out with her agent, Norman Brokaw, when William Frawley ... ‘Who’s Joe D?’ She had no idea who Joe DiMaggio was. She obviously wasn’t a baseball fan.

Kennedy. Yet, near the end of Monroe’s life, Joe and Marilyn were spending time together again. DiMaggio told his friends that the two were going to get remarried. Former DiMaggio teammate Jerry ...

From "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life" Editor's note: ESPN.com is running excerpts from Richard Ben Cramer's Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life recently published by Simon & Schuster. This is the third ...