Scorecard November 28

The Yankees learned early in their successful years that the key to continued success was retooling. So, after winning their second Championship in 1927, they recognized that need, and released righty Bob Shawkey and lefty Dutch Ruether on November ...

Doc Adams: Preserving A Legacy

Scorecard November 27

In a great trade that helped set up their fabulous run in the late seventies, the Yanks sent catcher Johnny Ellis, infielder Jerry Kenney, and outfielders Charlie Spikes and Rusty Torres to the Indians for third baseman Graig Nettles and catcher ...

Scorecard November 26

After hitting 165 homers during his first nine years in the bigs with the Yanks, Moose Skowron was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for pitcher Stan Williams on November 26, 1962. Williams was a more valuable member of the pitching staff in New ...

Scorecard November 25

The most famous (of eight) Yankees to be born on November 25 is the Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio (1914). Hitter of 361 lifetime home runs (all as a righty batter) in a home ballpark with a virtually unreachable left center field wall, he won three ...

Scorecard November 24

It was a move just too painfully characteristic of the Yankees in the eighties. On November 24, 1986, the Bombers shipped pitchers Brian Fisher, Logan Easley, and (most awfully) Doug Drabek to Pittsburgh for Rick Rhoden, Cecilio Guante, and Pat ...

Scorecard November 23

The Yankees signed free-agent second baseman Steve Sax from the reigning World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers to a three-year contract on November 23, 1988. The effect of the signing had the Yanks and Dodgers swapping second basemen, with ...

Yankee Chronicles Episode 8

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Scorecard November 22

Mickey Mantle edged Ted Williams in the voting, 233 to 209, for the American League Most Valuable Player Award on November 22, 1957. The vote was controversial, but to many The Mick earned his second of three MVPs because he led his club to the ...

The Yankee Years of Clark Griffith

          His name would become synonymous with our nation's capital. A man who would come to symbolize baseball in Washington, D.C.           But before he would gain his greatest fame as owner ...

Scorecard November 21

The loss to the Royals in the ALCS did him in, so even though Manager Dick Howser of the 1980 New York Yankees had led his charges to a 103-win season, he gracefully “resigned” on November 21, 1980, when he was replaced on the bench by ...

Scorecard November 20

November 20 is a great day for me, and a certain set of Yankee fans who trace their most ardent fanhood to the following two players. On this day back in 1962, Mickey Mantle was named American League Most Valuable Player for the third time. And on ...

Scorecard November 19

On November 19, 2018, the Mariners traded southpaw starter James Paxton to the Yankees for lefthander Justus Sheffield, a prospect, along with Erik Swanson and Dom Thompson-Williams. Paxton had a good, almost great, 2019 season for the Yankees, ...

Scorecard November 18

In one of the biggest trades in major league history, the Yankees acquired first baseman Dick Kryhoski, pitchers Bob Turley and Don Larsen, shortstop Billy Hunter, and a few others from Baltimore for outfielder Gene Woodling, shortstop Willie ...