History of the NYY:
The MLB franchise New York Yankees played its first game in 1903 as New York “Highlanders”
They carried until 1913.
The Yankees have the most championships of all of the teams.
This is more than twice the number of wins than the second-ranked team, St. Louis Cardinals, and more than three times than its division rival Boston Red Sox.
Over the years, several Yankees players, such as Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
About 1 century ago...
Baseball players played during the 1918 outbreak of the Spanish flu, which killed roughly 675,000 Americans and 50 million people worldwide. The use of masks was used to prevent the flu and one century later we experiencing something very similar.
Ruth got infected by the Spanish Flu back in 1918 where he had to rest for some time. Shortly after that, he took care of himself and he was back in the stadium playing again. Surprisingly, he got infected a second time where he yet again fought through it and beat it which was surprising.
List of some of the best pitchers of All Time on the Yankees:
At number 1, we have Mariano Rivera- Rivera was classified as a closing pitcher for the Yankees during his time with the team. He played for the team for 19 seasons, from 1995 - 2013 where he ended his career as a professional baseball player. He is indeed ranked high as number one on the Yankees since he is so talented and the best pitcher the Yankees have had over the years.
Rivera changed the game like no other player before him. He had to make teams adjust to him, forcing him to find a player of a similar caliber to compare with him.
His 603 saves are the most of all-time in the major leagues.
Coming in at number 2 is Whitey Ford.
Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford was classified as the best starter on the Yankees. He played during 1950 to 1966 where he continued to impress everyone.
Ford's highest ERA was 3.24 in 1965.
Jumping to number 4, we have Andy Pettitte.
Nobody on this team has compiled more than his 203 wins than Pettitte. Pettitte has also won five rings, more than anyone on the team. He has proven that he deserves being ranked in the top ten.
He was borderline Hall-of-Fame back in 1995. He out-dueled John Smoltz in Game 5 of the 1996 World Series, winning 1-0.
Even with him aging, he was pitching to a 4-0, 3.52 ERA line in the 2009 postseason as the team went on to win the title.
Gehrig led the Yankees to six World Series and set the new high of consecutive games played, a total of 2,130 games.
Lou Gehrig was a Hall of Fame first baseman who played for the NYY back from the 1920's - 1930's who ended up passing away from a disease called "Lou Gehrig's Disease" which is also known as ALS.
Gehrig had a batting average of .361 throughout his whole baseball career. Gehrig was the first Yankee to have his number retired and never to be work by another player ever again.
Come 1938, Gehrig found his body starting to fail him slowly to the point where he could not tie his shoes and it worried him that this was more than just a slight illness. After many tests, it was confirmed that he was suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, which strips the nerve cells in the body.
When 1941 came around, he had been in much better shape, and now he was on his way out and there was nothing anyone could have done unfortunately. His health slowly deteriorated as the weeks went by. He had no strength left in him, no even enough to draw a signature on something for somebody. On June 2, 1941, it was confirmed that he had passed away in his sleep.
Jeter had such an great legacy. Mr. November was a nickname given to Jeter because of one of his hits that he had. Jeter was such a talented player who played such an important role in Yankee history. He is more than a professional baseball player, he is more of a star, role model, and a successful person.
During Game 4 of the back in 2001, Jeter batted against the Diamondbacks reliever Byung-Hyun Kim with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning. The date changed from October 31 to November 1st. Eight pitches later, Jeter got a hanger belt-high and over the plate where he knew it was now or never. He took the opportunity and smacked a low line drive that carried toward the foul pole in right and snuck over the wall. This goes down as the latest date an MLB game has ever been played before. Overall, this is the reason why he was given this name from this spectacular hit and play years ago.
Since 1996, Jeter is ranked in the top spot of the most opposite-field hits with a total of 845. Jeter's highest percentage of RBIs on balls in play to opposite field is a 40%, keeping the number one spot. Jeter also had 122 opposite RBI's along with 72 pull RBI's.
Back on September 25, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Jeter hits a line drive between first and second base where he jukes out the pitcher to have the ball go straight into the outfield where the runner on second at the time which was Richardson. He sprinted from second to home and dove head first into home plate getting marked as safe. The final score ended up being 6-5 in the bottom of the 9th inning, giving Jeter his last successful at bat and RBI in his professional baseball career.
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