November 4th

 On this day in Yankee history... 

2001: In Game 7 of a classic World Series, the Arizona Diamondbacks rally for two runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to defeat the Yankees and the usually unbeatable Mariano Rivera 3-2. The four-year-old Diamondbacks, the youngest franchise to win a Fall Classic, end New York's string of three consecutive World Championships. Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling share Series MVP honours. The Arizona pitchers are the first multiple winners since the Dodgers trio of Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager shared the award in the 1981 WS.  

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2009: The Yankees defeat the Phillies 7-3 in Game 6, to win the 2009 World Series. Hideki Matsui drives in a record 6 runs to earn the MVP Award for the Series. 

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November 3rd

 On this day in Yankee history... 


1934: Lou Gehrig is officially recognized as the winner of the American League Triple Crown, having hit .363 with 49 home runs and 165 RBI. He loses in the voting for AL MVP, however, to A's catcher Mickey Cochrane, who hit .320 with 2 home runs and 76 RBI.  

1942: Joe Gordon is voted AL MVP, beating out Ted Williams despite the latter's Triple Crown season. 

1955: The Yankees launch a tour of Japan and draw a record crowd of 64,000 when they play the first game against the All-Japan Stars in Osaka. Andy Carey slugs 13 home runs, and Elston Howard bats .468 on the 25-game trek. 

1992: The Yankees make one of their best trades ever by acquiring Paul O'Neill from the Reds for outfielder Roberto Kelly. O'Neill will help the Bronx Bombers win four World Championships. 

November 2nd

 On this day in Yankee history... 

1960: Roger Maris defeats Mickey Mantle for the AL MVP award by a vote of 225-222, the second-closest vote ever, after the Joe DiMaggio-Ted Williams race in 1947. 

     On the same day, George Weiss resigns as Yankee GM. 

1964: CBS becomes the first corporate owner of a major league team, buying eighty percent of the Yankees for $11,200,000. 

1995: The Yankees name Joe Torre as their new manager, replacing the recently departed Buck Showalter. Torre, a former Cardinals star and NL batting champion, will pilot the Yanks to four World Championships in his first five years with the team. 

2010: Clyde King dies at the age of 86. 

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November 1st

 On this day in Yankee history... 

1978: Ron Guidry is the unanimous choice for the 1978 American League Cy Young Award. Guidry led the league in wins (25), winning percentage (.893), shutouts (9), and ERA (1.74). 

1979: After a disappointing season, the Yankees begin wheeling and dealing, acquiring outfielder Ruppert Jones from the Mariners and catcher Rick Cerone and pitcher Tom Underwood from the Blue Jays, giving up seven players, including popular first baseman Chris Chambliss, shortstop Damaso Garcia, outfielder Juan Beniquez, and pitchers Jim Beattie and Paul Mirabella. 

1988: Masahiro Tanaka is born. 

2001: The first major league game ever started in the month of November is a memorable one as the Yankees, for the second consecutive night, make a dramatic comeback in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game and go on to victory in extra innings in Game 5 of the World Series. In an amazing case of history repeating itself, Diamondbacks closer Byung-Hyun Kim is again victimized, this time by Scott Brosius, who hits a game-tying two-out two-run home run to knot the game at 2-2 in the 9th inning, as Alfonso Soriano hits a RBI single with Chuck Knoblauch scoring the winning run in the 12th to give the Yankees a 3-2 victory and a 3-2 lead over Arizona. 

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2009: The Yankees take a 3 games to 1 lead in the World Series, backing CC Sabathia to a 7-4 win over the Phillies. The Yanks score three runs off Brad Lidge with two outs in the 9th, after the Phillies had rallied to tie the game with homers by Chase Utley and Pedro Feliz.  

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October 31st

 On this day in Yankee history... 

 

1957: Yogi Berra tells a writer that the fines paid by players involved in the Copacabana incident in May were returned to them. 

2001: For the first time since Mule Haas of the Philadelphia A's a game-tying two-run home run in Game 5 in 1929, a team comes from behind to tie a World Series game in the 9th inning and goes on to win in extra innings. A two-out, two-run home run by Tino Martinez in the bottom of the 9th ties the game, and Derek Jeter hits a home run in the bottom of the 10th, giving the Yankees a 3-2 victory over Arizona to knot the Series at two games apiece. Both homers come off Byung-Hyun Kim, who relieves Curt Schilling in the 8th inning. Mariano Rivera gets the win in relief for the Yankees. Following the 2010 season, a panel of experts at the MLB Network will vote this game the 12th greatest game of the past fifty years. 

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2009: The Yankees take the lead in the World Series by winning Game 3 8-5 over the Philadelphia Phillies in which six home runs are hit ~ three by each team. Andy Pettitte is the winner over Cole Hamels, and helps his own cause by becoming the first Yankee pitcher to drive in a run in WS game since 1964.

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2013: Johnny Kucks dies at the age of 81.