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.
joe, you were on here and spoke your mind. did anything that ralph northam said change your mind? how would you explain that press conference? no, it did not change my mind. i was very sorry to not see him step aside. i thought for the good of the commonwealth of west virginia, he would step aside and let the wounds begin to heal, but instead he denied that he was in the picture after initially saying he was in the picture, and then he hearkened to another incidence where he blackened his face to imitate michael jackson, one of the great superstars of our time. he doesn t understand the degree to which this hurts our community. i still stand with the naacp and others that are calling for him to step aside. john, northam did apologize, talking about wanting to earn forgiveness. does that sound like a last grasp to keep his job? he has to get the hell out of
that same year, i did participate in a dance contest in san antonio in which i darkened my face as part of the a michael jackson costume. i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that. it is because my memory of that episode is so vivid that i truly do not believe i am in the picture in my yearbook. virginia governor ralph northam defying calls for his escalation which only escalated after that news conference. let s bring in spokeswoman for the virginia republican party and critic on the hill, director for henry reid when he was associate director and joe page.
with him on the legislative side, so it is going to hit that point where he may hit the inadequacy law. regardless, he s going to be out of office. whether he realizes it or not, he s going to be leaving office, and i think it s going to be through resignation, and i think it s probably going to be very soon. joe, let s talk about someone who is not out of office. there are comparisons being drawn between democrats and the responses to northam and republicans responses to steve king over his past racist remarks. steve stripped of his committee assignments but still has the job. what is your thoughts on hcompa the two sides are handling this. i was pleased to see them strip him of his committee assignments, i thought that was a step in the right direction, but certainly if the republican party doesn t want to be branded as a party who is insensitive to
the interests of the people of color, it has to make a strong statement with people like steve king and let them know there is no place for them in the republican party. just like the calls are out right now for governor northam to step aside. and joe, what about the president here? well, the president certainly has made comments about northam. i would like to see him make a stronger comment. i would like to see him say that northam needs to step down, because i think it s important for the people of the commonwealth of virginia, whether they re democrat or republican or black or white, but certainly for african-americans, it s important for the governor at this point to step aside. and i d like to see the president say that unequivocally. something he didn t do in charlottesville, he got a lot of creditism because of that. how do you reckon those two different actions here? i was one of the people that criticized the president when charlottesville happened in 2017. i thought h