On this day in Yankee history...
1956: Butch Wynegar is born. Happy 63rd to an '80s Yankee mainstay!
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wynegbu01.shtml
Thursday, March 14, 2019
March 14th
On this day in Yankee history...
1956: Butch Wynegar is born. Happy 63rd to an '80s Yankee mainstay!
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wynegbu01.shtml
March 13th
On this day in Yankee history...
1886: Frank 'Home Run' Baker is born.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bakerfr01.shtml
1937: Lou Gehrig signs his contract for the year for $38,000 with a $750 signing bonus.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
March 12th
On this day in Yankee history...
1939: Johnny Callison, who played the last two seasons of a 15-year MLB career with the '72-'73 Yankees, is born. He died in 2006.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/callijo01.shtml
1962: Darryl Strawberry is born.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/strawda01.shtml
1939: Johnny Callison, who played the last two seasons of a 15-year MLB career with the '72-'73 Yankees, is born. He died in 2006.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/callijo01.shtml
1962: Darryl Strawberry is born.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/strawda01.shtml
March 11th
On this day in Yankee history...
1945: Dock Ellis of the 1976 pennant winners is born. He died in 2008.
1956: At Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg there are no maybes about it as Mickey Mantle hits a Grapefruit League pitch from Larry Jackson over the left field wall into the bay. The Yankees top the Cardinals, 4 - 3. Stan Musial contends that "no home run has ever cleared my head by as much as long as I can remember." Mantle will hit another at Al Lang on March 20th off Bob Mabe that also lands in the water, and will clock a 500-foot shot in Miami four days later against the Dodgers.
1960: Mickey Mantle signs a one-year contract worth $65,000. The new deal represents a $7,000 cut in pay for the star, who batted .285 with 31 home runs and 75 RBI for the Yankees in 1959.
1974: Bobby Abreu is born.
2001: The Yankees formally announce the signing of Cuban defector Andy Morales, a third baseman, to a four-year contract. Morales will wash out and be waived from his minor league team by July. The Yankees will try and sidestep his contract with proof that his listed age of 26 years is really 29.
2002: The Yankees release outfielder Ruben Rivera for stealing Derek Jeter's glove from his locker and selling it on the black market for $2,500. There are rumours that Rivera also took other memorabilia items, such as things belonging to Roger Clemens, but Clemens denies it. Rivera had been signed to a one-year contract for $1 million.
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Saturday, March 9, 2019
March 9th
1908: Myril Hoag is born. Hoag was a replacement outfielder on three Yankee championship teams (1932, 1936 and 1937) before being traded to the St. Louis Browns in 1938. He died in 1971.
1942: Bert Campaneris, who played most of his career with the Kansas City/Oakland A's but who finished his career with the Yankees, is born.
1973: Aaron Boone is born. Happy birthday, skipper!
March 8th
On this day in Yankee history...
1930: Babe Ruth signs a two-year contract with the Yankees for $160,000. At $80,000 per year, he becomes the highest-paid player in major league history thus far.
1938: Lou Gehrig rejects the latest contract offer from the Yankees to a one-year deal worth $39,000. Four days later, Gehrig will agree to the same Yankees offer and end his spring training holdout.
1947: In Havana, Cuba's new Stadium del Cerro, the Brooklyn Dodgers beat th Yankees 1-0 in an exhibition game.
1966: The Cooperstown Special Veterans Committee
waives one of its election rules and elects Casey Stengel to the Hall of Fame. Stengel managed the Mets for most 0f the 1965
season before falling and breaking his hip. The injury ended the elderly skipper's career. Given his age, the Veterans Committee decide to make him immediately eligible for the Hall.
1999: Joe DiMaggio dies at the age of 84.
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