New York Yankees legend Joe DiMaggio has lung cancer and suffered a heart attack last week, television station WPIX reported.<\/p>\n
The Hall of Fame outfielder has been hospitalized in Hollywood, Fla., since Oct. 12 for what his attorney Morris Engelberg said was pneumonia and a lung infection.<\/p>\n
But WPIX reported Monday that DiMaggio, who will be 84 on Wednesday, had a tumor removed from his lung last month.<\/p>\n
The station, which has televised Yankees games for 48 years, cited three sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. WPIX news executives declined to elaborate on the sourcing.<\/p>\n
The station said Yankees owner George Steinbrenner canceled a planned visit last week and was toldDiMaggio probably wouldn’t have recognized him, anyway.<\/p>\n
The report also said friends of DiMaggio were concerned about who was in control of his estate, which WPIX said includes an estimated $20 million collectibles and memorabilia fortune.<\/p>\n
Officials at Memorial Regional Hospital have not provided information on DiMaggio’s condition; switchboard operators have even denied DiMaggio is a patient.<\/p>\n
During the past two weeks, DiMaggio’s attorney faxed two updates on his condition to the media, the last of which said DiMaggio was improving after being very ill.<\/p>\n
“He is doing well,” a spokeswoman for attorney Engelberg told The Associated Press on Friday. She was unable to provide details.<\/p>\n
Engelberg’s wife returned a message left on her husband’s answering machine Monday night by saying he couldn’t get to the phone \u2014 he was asleep.<\/p>\n
In 13 seasons with the Yankees, DiMaggio played in 11 All-Star Games and was the American League’s most valuable player three times. His 56-game hitting streak in 1941 is still a record.<\/p>\n
Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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