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The 1971 New York Yankees season was the 69th season for the franchise. The team finished fourth in the American League East with a record of 82–80, 21 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. New York was managed by Ralph Houk. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium.
Dock Phillip Ellis Jr. (March 11, 1945 – December 19, 2008) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1968 through 1979, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates teams that won five National League Eastern Division titles in six years between 1970 and 1975 and won the World Series in 1971.
After five seasons with the Senators which moved to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to become the Texas Rangers, he was dealt to the New York Yankees for Terry Ley and Gary Jones at the Winter Meetings on December 2, 1971. [6] Allen played for New York in 1972, backing up second and third base. He played 17 games for the Yankees in 1973 ...
Jerry Dean "Jake" Gibbs (born November 7, 1938) is an American former Major League Baseball player who played for the New York Yankees as a platoon catcher from 1962 to 1971. Although Gibbs was the regular starting catcher for New York in 1967 and 1968, he was primarily a back-up for Elston Howard and then Thurman Munson at the tail-end of his ...
The Yankees have played home games in the current Yankee Stadium since 2009. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. Also known as "the Bronx Bombers" and "the Pinstripers", [1] [2] the Yankees play in the East Division of Major League Baseball's (MLB) American League (AL).
He was traded to the Yankees in December 1969 for pitcher Mickey Scott and cash, [14] and played a single season for the 1970 Yankees as a pinch hitter and back-up first baseman to Danny Cater, a former White Sox teammate in 1965-66; with only 77 at bats and 13 games in the field at first base. [9] [18] He was released by the Yankees in March ...
He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1967 through 1972, most notably as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1969 to 1971, and won the World Series in 1970. He also played for the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves.
April 6 – Bill White, a former NL first baseman, became the first African-American to do play-by-play as part of a regular broadcast crew of a team, when the New York Yankees opened the season with a game in Boston. April 10 – The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Montreal Expos, 4–1, in the first game played at Philadelphia's Veterans ...