Calm down, sports fans. When it comes to sex symbols hooking up with baseball stars, nothing compares to Marilyn Monroe fling with Joe DiMaggio.
Had social media existed, the hookup of the 20th century would have been MM and Joltin’ Joe.
“He didn’t resent her fame, or her success,” recalled one account. “What he could not do was separate the fact that the actress performing the rituals demanded of her by her profession, the woman that every man in America wanted, was also his wife.
“On October 5, 1954, just 274 days after they were married, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio divorced. Yet Joe DiMaggio, the man who needed no one, was still in love with Marilyn Monroe, the woman who needed everyone.
“They remained close friends after the divorce. When Marilyn Monroe suddenly died in 1962, it was rumored that DiMaggio was just about to ask her to remarry him.”
Let’s hope the J-Lo and A-Rod story doesn’t end as sadly.