Frazee traded Ruth to the Yankees in January of , citing Ruth's demand for a raise after being paid the highest salary in baseball, and despite owning the single season home run record at the time of the trade hitting 29 home runs in That would continue during his Yankees years, but the New York ownership was more tolerant, provided he brought fans and championships to the ballpark.
The perceived outcome of the trade in favor of the Yankees would haunt the Boston club for the next 84 years. The Red Sox ended up not winning a World Series from until see Curse of the Bambino , often finding themselves out of the World Series hunt as a result of the success of the Yankees.
Frazee would not have to wait that long to produce success from the Ruth trade - on Broadway. In he scored a hit with the musical comedy No No Nanette , a production perhaps financed with at least some of the proceeds from the Ruth trade. Other important newcomers in this period were manager Miller Huggins and general manager Ed Barrow. Huggins was hired in by Ruppert while Huston was serving in Europe with the American army this would lead to a break between the two owners, with Ruppert eventually buying Huston out in Barrow came on board after the season, and like many of the new Yankee players had previously been a part of the Red Sox organization, having managed the team since Barrow would act as general manager or president of the Yankees for the next 25 years and may deserve the bulk of the credit for the team's success during that period.
He was especially noted for development of the Yankees' farm system. The home run hitting exploits of Ruth proved popular with the public, to the extent that the Yankees were soon outdrawing their landlords, the Giants. In , when the Yankees made their first World Series appearance, against the Giants, the Yankees were told to move out of the Polo Grounds after the season.
At that time, John McGraw was said to have commented that the Yankees should "move to some out-of-the-way place, like Queens". In the Yankees returned to the Series again, and were again defeated by the Giants. Meanwhile, the construction crew moved with remarkable speed and finished the big new ballpark in less than a year.
The Stadium was the first triple-deck venue in baseball and seated an astounding 58, In the first game at Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hit a home run. He would end the year with "only" 41 home runs, but he was walked a then record times and he batted. Because of his success and all the fans that he brought to see the Yankees, the Stadium became known as " The House that Ruth Built ".
In the Yanks faced the Giants for a third straight year in the Series , finally turning the tables on the Giants. Giants outfielder Casey Stengel , who even then was being called "Old Case", hit two homers to win the two games the Giants came away with.
Stengel would later come to the Yankees as a successful manager. The team was so potent that it became known as " Murderers' Row " and is sometimes considered to have been the best team in the history of baseball though similar claims have been made for other Yankee squads, notably those of , and Ruth's home run total of 60 in set a single-season record which would stand for 34 years.
Ruth also batted. Meanwhile, first baseman Lou Gehrig had his first big season, batting. He also broke Ruth's single season RBI mark in with Ruth hit third in the order and Gehrig fourth.
However, right behind them were two more sluggers: Bob "The Rifle" Meusel , who played either of the corner outfield positions, and Tony Lazzeri , who played second base. Lazzeri actually ranked third in the league in home runs in with 18, and he hit. Meusel hit. Speed was another weapon used by both: Meusel's 24 stolen bases were second best in the league, while Lazzeri swiped All of these numbers were due in part to the leadoff man Earle Combs who played center field.
Combs hit. The Yankees' team batting average was. The Yankees would repeat as American League champions in , fighting off the resurgent Philadelphia Athletics , and would go on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the Series. Ruth got 10 hits in 16 at-bats for a single Series record batting average of. Meanwhile, Gehrig went 6 for After three also-ran seasons went to the Philadelphia Athletics , the Yankees returned to the American League top perch under new manager Joe McCarthy in and swept the Chicago Cubs in the Series , running the team's streak of consecutive World Series game wins to 12, a mark which would stand until the Yankees bested it in the World Series.
Babe Ruth hit his famous " Called Shot " home run in Wrigley Field in Game Three of that Series, a fitting "swan song" to his illustrious post-season career.
The Yankees' run during the s could also be called the "McCarthy era", as manager Joe McCarthy no relation to the Senator of the same name would guide the Yankees to new heights. Just as Gehrig stepped out of Ruth's considerable shadow, a new titan appeared on the horizon, in the person of Joe DiMaggio.
The young center fielder from San Francisco had an immediate impact, batting. They did it without Gehrig for most of , as the superstar's retirement due to ALS saddened the baseball world.
The strongest competition for the Yankees during that stretch were the Detroit Tigers , who won two pennants before that Yankees four-year stretch, and one after. When the Yankees did get into the Series, they had little trouble. During Game Two of the Series , they pounded the Giants , still the World Series record through for most runs by a team in one game.
They took the Giants four games to two in that Series, and four games to one the next year. After an off season came the Summer of , a much-celebrated year, often described by sportswriters as the last great year of the "Golden Era", before World War II and other realities intervened. Ted Williams of the Red Sox was in the hunt for the elusive. Meanwhile, DiMaggio, who had once hit in 61 straight games as a minor leaguer with the San Francisco Seals , began a hitting streak on May 15 which stretched to an astonishing 56 games.
The last game of the streak came on July 16 at Cleveland's League Park. The streak was finally snapped in a game at Cleveland Stadium the next night before a huge crowd at the lakefront. A crucial factor in ending the streak was the fielding of Cleveland third baseman Ken Keltner , who stopped two balls that DiMaggio hit hard to the left. Modern baseball historians regard it as unlikely that anyone will ever hit. The Yankees made short work of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Series.
Two months and one day after the final game of the Yanks' four-games-to-one win, the Pearl Harbor attacks occurred, and many of the best ballplayers went off to World War II.
The war-thinned ranks of the major leagues nonetheless found the Yanks in the post-season again, as the team traded World Series wins with the St. Louis Cardinals during and The team then went into a bit of a slump, and manager McCarthy was let go early in the season.
After a couple of interim managers had come and gone, Bucky Harris was brought in and the Yankees righted the ship again, winning the pennant and facing a much-tougher Dodgers team than their counterparts, in a Series that took the Yankees seven games to win, and was a harbinger of things to come for much of the next decade.
Despite finishing only three games behind the pennant-winning Cleveland Indians in , Harris was released, and the Yankees brought in Casey Stengel as the team's manager. Casey had a reputation for being somewhat of a clown and had been associated with managing particularly bad teams such as the mids Boston Braves , so his selection was met with no little skepticism. His tenure would prove to be the most successful in the Yankees' history up to that point.
The Yankees team was seen as "underdogs" that came from behind to catch and surpass the powerful Red Sox on the last two days of the season, in a faceoff that fueled the beginning of the modern intense rivalry between these teams. The post-season proved to be a bit easier, as the Yankees knocked off their cross-town Flatbush rivals - the Dodgers - four games to one.
By this time, the great DiMaggio's career was winding down. It has often been reported that he said he wanted to retire before he became an "ordinary" player. As if on cue, new superstars began arriving, including the "Oklahoma Kid", Mickey Mantle , whose first year was DiMaggio's curtain call.
Bettering the McCarthy-era clubs, Stengel's squad won the World Series in his first five years as manager, through The Yankees won over games in , but finished second to the Indians who won an AL record games; that record stood for 44 years until the Yankees surpassed it.
The five consecutive championships won by the Yankees during this period remains the major league record. Led by players like center fielder Mickey Mantle , pitcher Whitey Ford , and catcher Yogi Berra , Stengel's teams won 10 pennants and seven World Series titles in his twelve seasons as Yankee manager.
Casey Stengel was also a master at publicity for the team and for himself, even landing a cover story in Time magazine in The s was also a decade of significant individual achievement for Yankee players.
For example, in Mantle won the major league triple crown , leading both leagues in batting average. In , the Dodgers finally beat the Yankees in the World Series, after five Series losses to the Yankees in '41, '47, '49, '52 and ' But the Yankees came back strong the next year.
Not only was it the only perfect game to be pitched in World Series play, it also remains the only no-hitter of any kind to be pitched in postseason play. In the World Series , the Yankees got their revenge against the Braves, and became the second team to win the Series after being down three games to one. For the decade, the Yankees won six World Series championships '50, 51, '52, '53, '56, '58 and eight American League pennants those six plus '55 and ' Led by Mantle, Ford, Berra, Elston Howard the Yankees' first African-American player , and the newly acquired Roger Maris , the Yankees burst into the new decade seeking to replicate the remarkable success of the s.
During the offseason, a seemingly innocuous development may have marked the beginning of the end for the future of this Yankees dynasty. In December of , Chicago insurance executive Charles O. Johnson had acquired the then-Philadelphia Athletics from the family of Connie Mack in He was the owner of Yankee Stadium at the time, but the American League owners forced him to sell the Stadium as a condition of purchasing the Athletics.
During Johnson's ownership, the Athletics traded many young players to the Yankees for cash and aging veterans, thus significantly improving the Yankees' future prospects. Roger Maris had been acquired by the Yankees in one such trade, going to New York in a seven-player deal in December Many fans, and even other teams, frequently accused the Athletics of being operated effectively as a farm team for the Yankees.
Once Finley purchased the Athletics, he immediately terminated the team's "special relationship" with the Yankees, thus cutting off their easy supply of promising players. All of this was a prelude to the remarkable year that would follow.
Nineteen sixty-one was one of the most memorable years in Yankee history. Throughout the summer Mantle and Maris, the reigning MVP, hit home runs at a record pace as both chased Babe Ruth's single season home run record of Ultimately, Mantle was forced to bow out in mid-September with 54 home runs when a severe hip infection forced him from the lineup.
On October 1 , the final day of the season, Maris broke the record when he sent a pitch from Boston's Tracy Stallard into the right field stands at Yankee Stadium for his 61st home run.
However, by decree of Commissioner Ford Frick , separate single-season home run records were maintained to reflect the fact that Ruth hit his 60 home runs during a game season, while Maris hit his 61 in the first year of the new game season. Some 30 years later, on September 4 , , an eight-member Committee for Historical Accuracy appointed by Major League Baseball did away with the dual records, giving Maris sole possession of the single-season home run record until it was broken by Mark McGwire on September 8 , McGwire's record was later broken by Barry Bonds , whose 73 home runs in remains the major league record.
Maris still holds the American League record. The Yankees won the pennant with a record and went on to defeat the Cincinnati Reds in five games to win the World Series. The regular season wins posted by the '61 club remains the third highest single-season total in franchise history, behind only the team's regular season wins and team's wins.
The Yankees also clubbed a then-major league record for most home runs by a team with , a total not surpassed until the Baltimore Orioles hit with the aid of the designated hitter. Because of the excellence of Maris, Mantle, and World Series-MVP Ford, a fine pitching staff, stellar team defense, the team's strong depth and power, and its overall dominance, the Yankees are universally considered to be one of the greatest teams in the history of baseball, compared often to their pinstriped-brethren, the Yankees, the Yankees, and the Yankees.
In , the Yankees once again had an intra-city rival as the National League's new expansion team, the New York Mets , came into existence. That year the Mets would lose a record games while the Yankees would win the World Series , their tenth in the past sixteen years, defeating the San Francisco Giants in seven games. The Yankees would again reach the Fall Classic in , but they were swept in four games by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
This was the first time the Yankees were swept in a World Series. Feeling burnt out after the season, Houk left the manager's chair to become the team's general manager and Berra, who himself had just retired from playing, was named the new manager of the Yankees. The aging Yankees returned for a fifth straight World Series in -- their fourteenth World Series appearance in the past sixteen years -- to face the St.
Despite a valiant performance by Mantle, including a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth of Game Three off of Cardinals' reliever Barney Schultz, the Yankees fell to the Cardinals in seven games, and Berra was fired. It was to be the last World Series appearance by the Yankees for 12 years. Jokesters at the time wondered if Walter Cronkite would become the manager, perhaps with Yogi Berra doing the newscasts.
Topping and Webb had owned the Yankees for 20 years, missing the World Series only five times, and going in the World Series. By contrast, the CBS-owned teams never went to the World Series, and in the first year of the new ownership - - the Yankees finished in the second division for the first time in 40 years; the introduction of the major league amateur draft in also meant that the Yankees could no longer sign any player they wanted.
Webb sold his 10 percent of the Yankees that year. In the team finished last in the AL for the first time since Johnny Keane, the winning Cards manager in who joined the Yankees to manage in '65, was fired during the season, and GM Ralph Houk did double duty as field manager until the end of the year.
Topping, who had stayed on as percent owner and team president, quit at the end of the season and sold his share to CBS, who then appointed Michael Burke as president.
The Yankees were next-to-last the following year, , during which former farm director Lee MacPhail returned to the organization as GM, replacing Houk. After that the team's fortunes improved somewhat, but they would not become serious contenders again until Various reasons have been given for the decline, but the single biggest one was the Yankees' inability to replace their aging superstars with new ones, as they had done consistently in the previous five decades.
The Yankees' "special relationship" with the Athletics may have been a way to mask this problem. By the mids, the Yankees had little to offer in the way of trades, and Charles Finley had taken the Athletics in a new direction. Some have suggested the Yankees paid the price for bringing black players into the organization later than other teams, though this theory is controversial.
Also during the s, the Yankees lost two of its signature broadcasters. The team fired Mel Allen after the season, for reasons the club has not explained to this day. Two years later, Red Barber -- the former Dodgers voice who joined the Yankees on-air team in -- was also let go. Some blamed Barber's firing on his on-air mention of a paltry fan attendance at a September home game against the White Sox.
But sports biographer David J. Halberstam not the October author also noted Barber's less-than-happy relationship with Joe Garagiola and even Phil Rizzuto , ex-major leaguers with whom he shared the booth. Within a year, Steinbrenner bought out most of his other partners and became the team's principal owner, although Burke continued to hold a minority share of the club into the s.
Steinbrenner was in charge during the renovation of Yankee Stadium planned out by Burke and then-New York City Mayor John Lindsay , which was performed in a two-year period during which the Yankees played their home games at the Mets' home, Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens. After the season, Steinbrenner made a move that started the modern era of free agency by signing star pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter away from Oakland.
Midway through the season, Steinbrenner hired former second baseman Billy Martin as manager, and over the next 13 years fired and rehired him several times. Steinbrenner, Martin and Jackson would repeatedly feud throughout Jackson's five-year contract. Nevertheless, in Game Six of the World Series , Jackson proved his worth by hitting three home runs on three consecutive pitches against three different Dodger pitchers to wrap up the Series for the Yankees, earning himself the nickname "Mr.
Throughout the late '70s, the race for the pennant often came to a close competition between the Yankees and the Red Sox, and for fans of both clubs, every game between the two became important and added to a rivalry that was often bitter and ruthless, with brawls frequently erupting between both players and fans from the two clubs. The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry came to a head in the season.
On July 14, , the Yankees were The Yankees then went on a tear, and by the time they met up with the Sox for a pivotal four-game series at Fenway in early September, the Yankees were only four games out. In what would become known as the "Boston Massacre", the Yankees swept the Red Sox, winning the games , , and The third game was a shutout by Ron Guidry , who would lead the majors with nine shutouts, 25 wins against only three losses and a 1.
Guidry also finished with strikeouts, but Nolan Ryan 's strikeouts deprived Guidry of the pitching Triple Crown. On the last day of the season, the two clubs finished the regular season in a tie for first place in the AL East. A one-game playoff the rd game of the regular season between the two teams was held to decide who would go on to the pennant race, with the game being held at Boston's Fenway Park.
In the seventh inning, the Yankees drove a stake through the hearts of their rivals' fans when Bucky Dent drove a three-run home run over the " Green Monster ", putting the Yankees up Reggie Jackson's solo home run in the following inning would seal the eventual win that gave the Yankees their th win of the season and their third straight AL East title; it also gave Guidry his 25th win.
The outcome of this game, for Red Sox fans, was one of several emotional moments in their team's history that had their fans wondering if the Red Sox were under some kind of Yankee curse. They lost the first two games on the road, but then came home to win all three games at Yankee Stadium before wrapping up their 22nd World Championship in Game Six in Los Angeles. The s would end on a tragic note: on August 2 , , Yankees catcher and team captain Thurman Munson was killed in a plane crash.
Four days later, the entire team flew to Canton, Ohio for his funeral, only to return to New York later that day to play the Baltimore Orioles. In a game that was televised nationally, the emotional contest was highlighted by Bobby Murcer driving in all five of the team's runs in a dramatic victory.
Munson's uniform number 15 was retired, and his locker has been unused since his death. Following the team's loss in the World Series , the Yankees would go into their longest absence from the playoffs since Take a look at , for example. This is a year in which the Bombers eventually went on to win the World Series. There is nothing at fault in this year, a year in which the Yankees even went , which was the complete opposite of the Washington Nationals I just think that is funny.
Every fan and team, for that matter, has a goal of winning the World Series at the end of the year. Whether the team has an amazing win season is beside the fact. At this time in , the Yankees had a record, which is just one game better than this season's record. The reason I am comparing these two years is mainly that both teams had the same number of losses in their losing streaks.
The Yankees had a five-game losing streak from May I get it—that losing streak is a little more than a week before where we are in the season right now. But that is close enough to compare, as there is about a game difference in games played between both teams. After this five-game losing streak of the Yankees, there was a nine-game winning streak that came up four games after. I think that the same thing could happen with the Yanks. Rodriguez 6. Rodriguez 9. Wang 6.
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