Inside the baseball world, the 1954 marriage between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, which took place in San Francisco 62 years ago today, was a curious but understandable pairing of New York Yankees hero and Hollywood starlet.
DiMaggio had already been married to one film actress, Dorothy Arnold, from 1939-1944. So to the hardball fanatic, this was simply a case of two more charismatic, famous people having found each other and giving wedded bliss a try.
But then there was the bigger world outside the sport. There, this would grow into legend: a marquee match of American icons, a historic partnership that represented some sort of romantic perfection.