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Welcome to the final edition of This Day in Yankees History. On March 16th of last year, Pinstripe Alley began a daily look at the long history of this great franchise, mostly as a way to provide you all with some form of entertainment during the long stretch without baseball during the pandemic. We hope you’ve enjoyed the journey, as now, we’ve finally hit a full year and the end of the road for this series. Thank you all for taking the trip with us!
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22 Years Ago
It was a sad state of affairs around Yankees spring training in 1999, as beloved manager Joe Torre had to suddenly leave his championship team on March 10th following his prostate cancer diagnosis. After some deliberation, he elected to have surgery, which would keep him away from the team until May at the earliest.
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Welcome to This Day in Yankees History. Now that spring training is officially open, it’s time to get amped for the upcoming season. These daily posts will highlight two or three key moments in Yankees history on a given date, as well as recognize players born on the day. Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with us!
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118 Years Ago
As part of the ongoing American League-National League peace talks, the AL’s Baltimore Orioles franchise were given approval to relocate to New York by a vote of 15-1. New York City natives Bill Devery and Frank Farrell purchased the Baltimore club when it became bankrupt after the 1902 season with the intention of resuming operations in Manhattan.
This Day in Yankees History: Suzyn Waldman makes history
The Yankees’ radio broadcaster officially took over the role on this day in history.
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Welcome to This Day in Yankees History. Now that spring training is officially open, it’s time to get amped for the upcoming season. These daily posts will highlight two or three key moments in Yankees history on a given date, as well as recognize players born on the day. Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with us!
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16 Years Ago
Suzyn Waldman makes history as she makes her debut as the Yankees’ radio color commentator. She had long been a reporter covering the team and had called some games on TV, but in becoming a full-time radio voice, she added to her legacy. With her taking over the role, she became just the third woman in major league history to be a full-time color commentator for a big league team, and the first since the ’80s.
This Day in Yankees History: The strangest trade in sports history
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Welcome to the relaunched This Day in
Yankees History. These daily posts will highlight two or three key moments in Yankees history on a given date, as well as recognize players born on the day. Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with us!
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99 Years Ago
Going into his age-27 season, Yankees superstar Babe Ruth officially became the highest-paid player in baseball, signing a three-year contract worth $52,000 per season, or the modern-day equivalent of roughly $800,000. Although that looks low relative to modern contracts, his salary was more than twice the second-highest contract in history to that point and represented 40 percent of the player payroll (for context, the equivalent sum on the 2021 Yankees’ payroll would be $81.6 million).
This Day in Yankees History: Brian Cashman gets a boo-boo
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Welcome to the relaunched This Day in
Yankees History. As the offseason has begun much sooner than anyone has ever hoped for, the Pinstripe Alley team has decided to continue the revived program in its new format. These daily posts will highlight two or three key moments in Yankees history on a given date, as well as recognize players born on the day. Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with us!
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108 Years Ago
The Yankees become the sport’s first team to spend spring training abroad, conducting their preseason in Bermuda. In the first season after their name change from the Highlanders to Yankees, the newly minted club stumbled out of the gate, finishing their inaugural season with a 57-94 record. Playing in the Polo Grounds, it wouldn’t be until 1916 that the Yankees recorded their first winning season and didn’t win their first World Series until 1923, the year they built their