Willets Point wrote: But Dom DiMaggio was an even better defensive player, or so I've heard. That may be true, but t was hard to judge because he played half of his games in Fenway Park. Less distance to run (and throw), but he had to play tricky angles of caroms off the CF wall. Don't forget that when Joe played CF in the original YS, it was 402' to left center, and center ranged from 457' to 461'. - lots of ground to cover. In those days "strong up the middle" meant defensively and there were many good field, little hit center fielders who played a long time - Curt Flood, Bobby Gene Smith and Bill Virdon come to mind. The ones like Willie, Mickey and the Duke who could hit were the exception rather than the rule. But of those, Joe had the most ground to cover and he did make it look easy. And that was at the end of his career. BTW, I was a Brooklyn Dodger fan, hardly a DiMaggio acolyte. Later