On this day in Yankee history...
1962: At spring training, Roger Maris declines to pose with Mets coach Roger Hornsby because the Hall of Famer criticized him in his book My Wars with Baseball.
1972: In one of the best trades in franchise history, the Yankees acquire reliever Sparky Lyle from the Red Sox in exchange for 1B/OF Danny Cater. In seven seasons with the Yankees, Lyle will post a 57-40 record with 141 saves and a 2.41 ERA, win a Cy Young award, and help the team to three pennants and two championships.
Also on this day, Cory Lidle (d. 2006) is born.
1991: At Sotheby's in New York, a 1952 Topps card of Mickey Mantle goes for $49,500, tripling the pre-auction estimate, while a baseball signed by Babe Ruth and 11 other players at the 1939 Hall of Fame induction ceremony, sells for $20,900.
2012: New Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine gets an early introduction to the fierce rivalry with the Yankees. After the Sox tie a Grapefruit game at 4-4 on a squeeze bunt by Jason Repko in the bottom of the 9th inning, Valentine has reliever Clayton Mortenson on the mound ready to pitch the 10th when Joe Girardi announces that his team is leaving Fort Myers immediately to take a bus back to their base in Tampa. Girardi later justifies his last-minute decision by the fact that he has used all of the pitchers he had planned to bring into the game, but Valentine is still irked.
2015: Yankee prospect Jose Pirela runs into the center field fence at full speed in trying to chase down a drive off the bat of the Met's Juan Lagares. He suffers a concussion and has to be taken to hospital, but escapes more serious injury. Meanwhile, Lagares circles the bases with an inside-the-park home run.
2017: Former Yankee manager Dallas Green dies at the age of 82.
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