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The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees is a nonfiction book written by former Major League Baseball pitcher Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock. A memoir of Lyle's tenure with the New York Yankees , the book documents the 1978 New York Yankees season , including the 1978 World Series and conflicts ...
The Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network was launched in 2002 and serves as the primary home of the New York Yankees. [466] As of 2022, Michael Kay is the play-by-play announcer with David Cone , John Flaherty , and Paul O'Neill working as commentators as part of a three-man, or occasionally two-man, booth.
Dandy was a short-lived mascot of the New York Yankees. He was a large pinstriped cartoon mascot that sported a Yankees hat. He had a mustache that gave him an appearance similar to that of former Yankee pitcher Sparky Lyle or Thurman Munson. His name was a play on the classic American folk song "Yankee Doodle Dandy". He appeared at the start ...
The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner, in a move aimed to improve player recruitment as the team tries to win its ...
Another New York Yankees tradition is falling by the wayside this baseball season. After last week relaxing the team's longstanding policy on facial hair, the Yankees will not be playing Frank ...
In another Yankees–Dodgers matchup, New York fell behind three games to two, but victories in games six and seven gave the Yankees the title. [143] New York and Brooklyn were matched again in the 1953 World Series, and a Billy Martin base hit that decided the sixth and final game of the Series gave the Yankees another four games to two ...
Johnny Damon trimmed his hair and shaved his beard when he switched from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees after the 2005 season. / Credit: / AP. Yankees beard ban started in 1976.
They became defunct, but were purchased by William Stephen Devery and Frank J. Farrell for $18,000 and moved to New York in 1903. [2] Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston purchased the Yankees in 1915, [3] and Ruppert bought out Huston in 1922. [4] Dan Topping, Larry MacPhail, and Del Webb purchased the Yankees from Ruppert's estate ...