Joe DiMaggio Hated Tom Cruise

Rush and Malloy reported last week that Joe DiMaggio was a Tom Cruise hater too. It turns out that Tom scared the Yankee legend by following him:

This was in the mid-’90s, after Cruise had already starred in “Top Gun” and “Born on the Fourth of July,” but the baseball great, once married to Marilyn Monroe, didn’t realize - or didn’t care - what a big star Cruise was.

“He’d show up at baseball-signing shows and wait for Joe to come out,” says the source. “One time, he waited outside a restaurant for him for three hours. [DiMaggio] called him ‘a short little guy.’ He didn’t like it. He felt like he was stalking him.”

“Joe said to me, ‘This guy is following me around everywhere I go,’” says our spy. “‘Next time, I’m going to call the cops.’”

Poor Joltin’ Joe. He just wanted to spend his twilight years obsessing over Marilyn Monroe. Instead, he had to deal with an overrated midget actor stalking him. Not cool, Tom. Not cool.