Jeffrey Dean Morgan To Play This Famous Baseball Player Over At Lifetime — cinemablend.com

Morgan is a smart choice for the role of DiMaggio who is coming off the well-received but short-lived STARZ cable series Magic City. He's also been in a slew of other projects, including Showtime’s hit Shameless and Weeds. It will be interesting to see Morgan play the Yankees legend, especially since the project won't be focused on DiMaggio as a baseball icon. Instead, he'll also be a man desperate for love and a family. No word on just how big Morgan’s role in the miniseries is going to be, but with his name now attached, it is presumed that the DiMaggio marriage will be an integral part of the story--especially since we know how wild that relationship really was while it lasted.

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