Senate Bill 2656

    Florida Senate - 1999        (NP)                      SR 2656

    By Senator Silver





    38-1798A-99                                             See HB

  1                    Senate Resolution No.     

  2         A resolution celebrating March 24, 1999, as Joe

  3         DiMaggio Day in the State of Florida.

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  5         WHEREAS, on Monday, March 8, 1999, Joe DiMaggio,

  6  considered by many to be the greatest baseball player who ever

  7  lived, passed away, and

  8         WHEREAS, people across the United States and throughout

  9  the State of Florida are mourning the loss of this legendary

10  American athlete who represented the epitome of athletic

11  excellence and grace, and

12         WHEREAS, born on November 25, 1914, to Italian

13  immigrant parents, Joe DiMaggio climbed his way to the top of

14  America's pastime in a career characterized by a constant

15  demonstration of his undying love for the sport, and

16         WHEREAS, following a remarkable 13-year career with the

17  New York Yankees in which he led his team to ten American

18  League pennants and nine World Series Championships, Joe

19  DiMaggio was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of

20  Fame in 1955, and

21         WHEREAS, both on and off the playing field, Joe

22  DiMaggio was a man of quiet self-possession with a strong

23  sense of privacy, and

24         WHEREAS, Joe DiMaggio sacrificed some of the privacy he

25  so greatly valued to help ensure that children from all over

26  the country were able to receive proper health care when he

27  undertook the support of the operation of children's hospitals

28  across the nation, and

29         WHEREAS, in 1992, Joe DiMaggio lent his name to

30  Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, where the

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    Florida Senate - 1999        (NP)                      SR 2656
    38-1798A-99                                             See HB




  1  Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital was created to care for

  2  thousands of children battling numerous forms of illness, and

  3         WHEREAS, Joe DiMaggio enriched the hospital and the

  4  community in which he lived through his fundraising and

  5  support of various nonprofit agencies, and

  6         WHEREAS, it is with a deep sense of loss and sadness

  7  that Memorial Hospital and the South Broward Hospital District

  8  mark the passing of Joe DiMaggio, and

  9         WHEREAS, the hospital district and those who receive

10  health care through the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital and

11  the State of Florida join the rest of the nation in

12  acknowledging the unique legacy of this great American athlete

13  and gentleman and honoring his memory as they commemorate the

14  life of Joe DiMaggio, NOW, THEREFORE,

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16  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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18         That the Florida Senate celebrates March 24, 1999, as

19  Joe DiMaggio Day in the State of Florida.

20         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

21  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be transmitted to the

22  family of Joe DiMaggio as a tangible token of the esteem held

23  by the Florida Senate.

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