Joseph Victor Lawrence Krakauskas (March 28, 1915 – July 8, 1960) was a

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baseball

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who played for seven seasons in the

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(MLB). He played for the Washington Senators from 1937 to 1940 and the

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from 1941 to 1942 and 1946. He is best known for giving up the final hit in

Joe DiMaggio Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "The Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yank ...

's 56-game hit streak in 1941. He was of Lithuanian descent.

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