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1960 New York Yankees season

Elston Howard took over as the Yankees' everyday catcher, while Yogi Berra split time between the outfield and serving as Howard's backup.

1969 New York Yankees season

October 21, 1968: Jim Bouton was purchased from the Yankees by the Seattle Pilots.

2001 American League Championship Series

Brosius would then score on a Chuck Knoblauch single two batters later to make it 3–0 Yankees.

Al Simmons

Simmons had another great season, winning his 2nd batting title hitting .390 with 22 home runs, 128 RBI, 100 runs scored, 200 hits, 37 doubles, 13 triples and slugged .641 while playing in only 128 games, finishing 3rd in AL MVP voting behind the MVP, his teammate pitcher Lefty Grove and the Yankees' Lou Gehrig.

Andrew McCutchen

McCutchen gathered 108,147 votes in a week of fan voting via Twitter and Facebook, while New York Yankees' pitcher, CC Sabathia, came in second place with 89,054 votes.

Andy Michael

Michael was a scout for the New York Yankees from 1978 to 1982 and was responsible for the signing of Bob Tewksbury and Joe Lefebvre who were both drafted by the Yankees out of Concord, New Hampshire.

Arnold Johnson

Over the years, Johnson would trade such key players as Roger Maris, Bobby Shantz, Héctor López, Clete Boyer, Art Ditmar and Ralph Terry to the Yankees.

Art Ditmar

Ditmar won 47 games for the Yankees in a span of five years, with a career-high 15 in 1960, despite not getting to pitch on a regular basis in a rotation that included Whitey Ford, Bobby Shantz, Don Larsen and Bob Turley.

Art Jorgens

Jorgens has the dubious distinction of having played on teams that won five pennants and five world championships (the New York Yankees in 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939), yet never making a single appearance in a World Series game.

Bardonia, New York

West Nyack Little League located in Bardonia on Germonds Road is home to a league with a rich background and was the league of former Yankees catcher John Flaherty.

Billy Cannon, Jr.

Then baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn vetoed the contract, forfeited the Yankees draft pick and called for a special draft to be held for his rights.

Bloomfield Cemetery

Hank Borowy (1916–2004), Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers.

Charlie Spikes

Following the 1972 season, he was traded by the Yankees with John Ellis, Jerry Kenney and Rusty Torres to the Indians for Graig Nettles and Jerry Moses.

Chris Halliwell

His mistrust leads Leo to spy on Chris and find out that he has the ability to create a time portal (though not able to control it) where he and Chris are stuck (risking to be eaten by dinosaurs and captured by Confederate Americans who take them for Yankees) because of him.

Concourse Plaza Hotel

Many star players from the home teams – including Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees and Frank Gifford of the Giants – stayed at the Concourse Plaza, and visiting players would also stay at the hotel.

Dan Topping

MacPhail sold his share of the team to Topping and Webb in 1947, and the two sold controlling interest in the team to CBS in 1964, after which Topping remained as team president until 1966, when he sold his remaining stake in the Yankees.

Danny Kanell

Kanell said he wanted to eventually play for the Yankees, as he grew up idolizing Don Mattingly.

Del Webb

After buying out MacPhail in October 1947, Webb and Topping remained owners of the Yankees until selling the club to CBS in 1964.

Dick Kryhoski

On July 16 of that year, the Browns tied, by then, a majors record with three successive home runs belted by Clint Courtney, Kryhoski and Jim Dyck, in the first inning of a 8–6 victory over the Yankees.

Dodgers–Yankees rivalry

The next season, the Yankees won their division in thrilling fashion, thanks in large part to a timely home run from Bucky Dent in a one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox.

Double-barreled cannon

Finally his contraption was used as a signal gun in Athens to warn against advancing Yankees.

Douglas Brei

New York Black Yankees: In 2005, while working on a project documenting the histories of professional sports franchises in Rochester, NY, Brei discovered that the New York Black Yankees of the Negro National League had moved to Rochester for their final season (1948), a fact that had been erroneously omitted from every reference material for the ensuing 57 years.

Enterprise Radio Network

Talk show hosts and update announcers included John Sterling, the current voice of the New York Yankees; Don Chevrier, the longtime TV voice of the Toronto Blue Jays; network radio veterans John O'Reilly and Bob Buck; Jay Howard, the radio voice of the San Antonio Spurs' first NBA championship; and Bill Denehy, a former major league pitcher.

Felix Lopez

He is also involved with the Yankees' Latin Baseball Academy in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, as well as player development in Latin America.

Frank Tepedino

In order to fully complete the trade, the New York Yankees sent Dave Cheadle (August 15, 1973) and Al Closter (September 5, 1973) to the Atlanta Braves.

Gary Timberlake

On October 15, 1968, Timberlake was drafted by the Seattle Pilots from the Yankees as the 48th pick in the 1968 expansion draft.

Gene Monahan

After retiring from the Yankees, Monahan moved from his home in Hackensack, New Jersey to Mooresville, North Carolina, where he now works as a consultant for Hendrick Motorsports.

JD Closser

He was released by the Yankees on August 6 and signed with the Portland Beavers, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres.

Jerry Snyder

Obtained by the New York Yankees in 1947, he played for them during five minor league seasons before being traded to Washington along Jackie Jensen, Spec Shea and Archie Wilson in the same transaction that brought Irv Noren and Tom Upton to the Yankees.

Jim Gilliam

In the 1956 World Series, he walked with one out in the tenth inning of Game 6 and scored on a single by Robinson to give the Dodgers a 1–0 victory, tying the Series; in Game 5 he had struck out and grounded out twice in the perfect game pitched by the Yankees' Don Larsen.

Joe Molloy

Robert Nederlander, a limited partner in the Yankees, served as managing general partner for 16 months before resigning.

Joe Sparma

In 1965, Sparma was in his first full season with the Tigers, when he was assigned to be the starting pitcher against the Yankees on "Mickey Mantle Day" in New York.

Johnny James

He pitched in only one game for the Yankees that year before being traded to the Angels with Ryne Duren for Tex Clevenger and Bob Cerv on May 8.

Johnny Keane

In Bouton's book, I Managed Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad, a collection of essays and stories about past Major League managers, he wrote that Keane seemed to be in awe of the Yankees, and that he underestimated the problems the team faced.

Kenneth H. Shubin Stein

In 2011, Crutches 4 Kids was officially honored at New York Yankees stadium by New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia and Starter for its extraordinary efforts providing crutches to impoverished and disabled children around the world.

Lancaster, South Carolina

Aaron Robinson, was a professional Baseball Player with the Yankees and Detroit.

LaTroy Hawkins

He was the opposing starting pitcher during the perfect game by Yankees pitcher David Wells on May 17, 1998.

Lefty Gomez

Although he was honored with the plaque, his uniform #11 has not been retired, and has since been worn by several Yankees including Joe Page, Johnny Sain, Héctor López, Fred Stanley, Dwight Gooden, Chuck Knoblauch, Gary Sheffield, Doug Mientkiewicz, and Brett Gardner.

Luis Olmo

In the 1949 World Series against the Yankees, Olmo became the first Puerto Rican to play in a World Series, as well as hit a home run and get three hits in a Series game.

Mike Kekich

He had a modestly successful career in the Major Leagues, but he is best remembered for trading families with fellow Yankees pitcher Fritz Peterson before the 1973 season.

Mike McNally

Dec. 10, 1924: Traded by the New York Yankees to the Boston Red Sox for Howie Shanks.

New York Yankees Radio Network

The broadcast then returns to the ballpark where Sterling announces the player of the game (he previously did this at the end of the game broadcast), runs down whatever charitable donations are being made by various companies based on what the Yankees did in the game (scoring a certain amount of runs, strikeouts recorded, etc.), and then announces the winner of the "Cut Above the Rest" award, given to the player who had the highest on-base percentage for the game and sponsored by Supercuts.

Red Wilson

Wilson was the primary catcher for Tigers pitcher Frank Lary, who was known as "The Yankee Killer" because of his 16–3 record against the Yankees with Wilson catching.

Rob Murphy

Murphy also pitched for the Mariners, Cardinals, Yankees, Dodgers and Marlins, retiring at the end of the 1995 season.

Salt Rock, West Virginia

Ezra Midkiff – Major League Baseball player who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1909) and New York Yankees (1912-1913)

Vladimir Guerrero

He fared better in a national TV ad for Pepsi with the Yankees' third baseman Alex Rodriguez; the two engaged in a personal home run competition that ended up with the moon being broken.

Yankee Global Enterprises

In 1998, the Yankees had their most successful season in modern history, winning a combined total of 125 regular season and playoff games, culminating in a World Series championship.


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