March 3rd

On this day in Yankee history... 


1872: Willie Keeler is born in Brooklyn. A remarkable hitter, 'Wee Willie' will hit over .300 16 times in 19 seasons (7 of them with the NY Highlanders, his longest stint with any one club), hit over .400 once, and will finish with a .341 career BA, currently 14th on the all-time list. He will be elected to the Hall of Fame in 1939. 

 

1980: Jerry Priddy, a utility infielder for the 1941 championship team, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 60. 

1998: The Yankees offer the San Diego Padres  a choice of one from a list of players for the negotiating rights to Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu. The list includes Brian Boehringer, David Weathers, Chris Cumberland, Andy Fox and Matt Luke. The Yankees also offer one player from a list of five minor leaguers, plus $3 million. The Padres are talking to several other teams beside the Yankees. 

March 2nd

On March 2nd in Yankee history... 

1949: Joe DiMaggio leaves spring training camp to have an ailing right heel examined at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is told that no surgery is needed and he returns to Florida, but the heel will continue to bother him. The star is hitting just 7 for 31 in the Grapefuit League. 

1995: Born on this day, Miguel Andújar ~ happy birthday to the man who should have been AL Rookie of the Year in 2018.

March 1st

On March 1st in Yankee history... 

1969: Mickey Mantle announces his retirement. Mantle, who slumped to a .237 BA in 1968, finishes his 18-year career with 536 home runs and a .298 average. The Yankees offer him a coaching position on manager Ralph Houk's staff. 

1993: George Steinbrenner is reinstated as a general partner of the team. Commissioner Fay Vincent had banned Steinbrenner from day-to-day activities with the Yankees because of his relationship with convicted gambler Howie Spira. 

1996: The Yankees christen Legends Field,  their new $30 million, 31-acre complex in Tampa. The field has the exact dimensions of Yankee Stadium. On hand to see Phil Rizzuto toss out the first ball are former Yankees Whitey Ford, Catfish Hunter, Ron Guidry and Chris Chambliss, who then watch the new Yankees beat the AL Champions Cleveland Indians 5-2. 

2016: Commissioner Rob Manfred  sends a strong message on the issue of domestic violence as he issues a thirty-game suspension to Aroldis Chapman in response to an incident on October 30th. The suspension comes even though police declined to file charges in the case because of inconsistent evidence. MLB goes ahead based on the severity of the allegations. The Yankee closer announces that he will not appeal. 

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. 

                                              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_King  

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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