As a Baseball player, DiMaggio was revered. In a 1969 poll, he was voted the greatest living player in the game. After his death in 1999, a best-selling biography -- "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life" by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Ben Cramer -- portrayed the Hall of Famer as a private, moody man who wasn't above using his fame for personal gain.
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