March 30th

On this day in Yankee history... 



1955: The Yankees  sell pitcher Ewell Blackwell to the Kansas City A's. Blackwell, who was injured in 1954, will pitch in only two games for the Athletics this season before retiring. 

2001: Dwight Gooden announces his retirement. A four-time All-Star and Cy Young Award winner, Gooden posted a 194-112 record with a 3.51 ERA and 2293 strikeouts over a 16-season career. 

2013: 'Bullet' Bob Turley dies at the age of 82. 

                         https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Turley

March 29th

On this day in Yankee history... 




1966: Former Yankee relief ace Wilcy Moore dies at the age of 65. 

                             https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wilcy_Moore 





1975: The Yankees release Mel Stottlemyre, who is suffering from a torn rotator cuff. The pitcher compiled a 164-139 record and a 2.97 ERA as well as 40 shutouts in an eleven-season major league career, all with New York. 

                         https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mel_Stottlemyre 






1984:  The Yankees trade one of the key members of their '70s World Championship teams when they dispatch Graig Nettles to the San Diego Padres for pitcher Dennis Rasmussen and a player to be named later. Nettles, who angered George Steinbrenner by criticizing him in his book 'Balls', will hit 20 home runs and help the Padres reach the 1984 World Series. 

March 28th

On this day in Yankee history... 



1919: Vic Raschi is born. 

                     https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/raschvi01.shtml 




1927: In a final exhibition game between the previous World Series' opponents, the Yankees score four runs in the 1st inning off Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Cardinals. Then, Alexander shuts down the Yankees until leaving in the 8th, and the Cardinals score two in the 9th to win 6-4. Both teams use their regular lineups ~ the only teams to make no starting changes from last year's teams. The four runs off Alexander are the first the 40-year-old veteran has allowed in 15 innings of spring training work. 

1961:  In their first meeting since Pittsburgh's dramatic World Series win over New York, the Bucs, behind would-be World Series goat Bob Friend, beat up the banged-up Bombers 9-2. The game's first run comes in the bottom of the 2nd on Roberto Clemente's bases-empty bomb over the left-field fence. Pittsburgh go up 3-0 in the 3rd on Dick Stuart's  two-run shot, likewise to left field. By the 7th, the Bucs have built their lead to 8-0 before the Yankees can push across their initial tally. Today's win boosts the Bucs' Grapefruit League-leading record to 13-5, while miring New York ever more deeply in the pre-season cellar. 

1970: In this first (and last?) 'Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial All-Star Baseball Classic', with all proceeds going to the late Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a memorial center planned for Atlanta, the East, managed by Joe DiMaggio, scores a 5-1 victory over the West. The losers are skippered by ex-Dodger Roy Campanella, confined to a wheelchair since a 1958 auto accident,  A crowd of 31,694 watches the charity event at Dodger Stadium.  

1988: The Yankees waive knuckleballer Phil Niekro four days shy of his 47th birthday. 

2003:  Three days prior to Opening Day, the YES Network claims Cablevision has pulled out of a proposed deal signed 17 days ago which would have provided televised Yankees games to nearly three million cable subscribers in the New York City metropolitan area. According to a YES press release, the giant cable television company failed to sign a finalized version of the hand-written document that both parties exchanged on March 12th, but Cablevision president, James L. Dolan, said when YES sent him a revised typewritten draft on two days later, the document contained alterations that he found unacceptable. 

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.  

                https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2001/B11040ARI2001.htm   











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. 

                       https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2009/B11040NYA2009.htm

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. 

                     https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2001/B11010NYA2001.htm   










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.  

                             https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/November_1