Remembering 16 Yankees who died in 2020, including Whitey Ford, Phil Niekro, Don Larsen, Horace Clarke
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Yankees alums that died in 2020 include (clockwise from top left) Whitey Ford, Don Larsen, Jay Johnstone, Bob Watson and Phil Niekro.AP
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Six weeks later, Tony Fernandez was gone just a quarter-century after his season-ending injury in spring training opened up the Yankees’ starting shortstop job for a 21-year-old rookie named Derek Jeter.
During this awful year of the pandemic, one that led to baseball having a 60-game season with no fans, the sport suffered loss after loss.
Seven Hall of Famers died in 2020, two of them Yankees, franchise great Whitey Ford and knuckleball phenom Phil Niekro.