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One of our favorite subject is the subject of sports. More than 350 sets of brothers have played in the

major leagues since the 1870s and we're talking about baseball. But few have had the

skill, the charisma or the success of the DiMaggio brothers.

Jolton Joe, Dom, and Vince.

Here to tell the story is the four-time New York Times bestseller author Tom Clavin.

He'll be sharing stories from his book, The DiMaggio's,

Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball,

and Their Pursuit of the American dream.

Here's Clavin.

The DiMaggio's is about family.

That's the reason why I wrote the book.

It's dedicated to my own family.

I'd actually turned down the opportunity to write the DiMaggio's twice.

I was not interested.

I thought that Richard Ben Kramer had done the book on the DiMaggio's because of his biography of Joe DiMaggio in a hero's life. I'm not a big fan of that book, but I figured it would be pretty thorough and what else could I do.

The third time that my agent suggested that I do a book on the DiMaggio's, all three brothers,

I agreed to look into it, mostly just so I could get him off my back and he could stop suggesting that.

And I started to do some research.

I mean, like most people, I maybe didn't even know there were two other DiMaggio brothers,

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