Although he died in 1991, Joe DiMaggio’s diaries are now being published. Don’t ask me what the great delay was for. Maybe that’s how long it took the con artist to whip everything together. So according to the AP, as passed along by Fark, a 2,000 page 29 volume collection of Joe DiMaggio’s diaries written between ‘82 and ‘93 are being published. Amongst some of the highlights:

“If I thought this would be taking place,” Joe DiMaggio laments in a diary entry about the public relations frenzy, “I would have stopped the hitting streak at 40.”
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“Traveling getting to be damn much,” he wrote in 1987. Noted another entry: “Plane food should be fed to pigs.”
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“Had to buy a new shirt because neck size down to 15½.”

I also like one of the first comments, he would’ve stopped the streak at 40. Yeah bro, pressure was bad then, imagine what it would have been like today. Good thing he didn’t stop though, because his record looks pretty unbeatable at this point. So, the question is, would you buy the book? I dunno, I can’t stomach 200 pages of anything, much less 2,000.

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