Did you know the Yankees logo with the bat-in-the-hat first debuted in 1946? The New York Yankees were the first team in MLB history to hit 3 Grand Slams by one team in the same game! They did it in 2011. YANK Newsletter was invented by Larry MacPhail. It debuted in 1946. It ran through the winter of 1966. It was published about 6 times a year. In 1967, it went to a newspaper format. It only lasted that season and then it was ended. (Credit: Paul Doherty) The name Yankees, referring to the baseball team of the American League, first appeared in print in the Boston Herald Newspaper in 1904. George Selkirk became the first Yankees player to hit a home run in his first World Series at-bat, doing so 1936. Sam Crane of the New York Journal, along with Mark Roth of the New York Globe, are both credited as the men who first used the name Yankees when referring to the American League baseball team. Casey Stengel managed in a record 10 World Series. He won 7 of them! Ed Barrow was the first Yankees Executive to win The Sporting News Major League Executive of the Year Award. The first time a reliever won the Cy Young Award from the American League was in 1977. It went to the great Sparky Lyle. Bobby Murcer called his first Yankee game in 1983, the day after he retired as a Yankee player. The Yankees pitchers who have been named World Series MVPs are: Don Larsen in 1956, Bob Turley in 1958, Whitey Ford in 1961, and Mariano Rivera in 1999. Did you know? Thats why I love the Yankees and I support the whole team.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 01:42:45 +0000
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