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Evan Tracy Stallard (August 31, 1937 – December 6, 2017) was an American professional baseball player, a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1960 to 1966. He played with the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals. [1] Stallard is most remembered for having given up New York Yankees slugger Roger Maris' 61st home run in 1961. [2 ...
The "M&M Boys" were the duo of New York Yankees baseball players Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, who were teammates from 1960 to 1966. [ a ] They gained prominence during the 1961 season , when Maris and Mantle, batting third and cleanup (fourth) in the Yankee lineup respectively, both challenged Babe Ruth 's 34-year-old single-season record of ...
The 1960 New York Yankees season was the 58th season for the team. The team finished with a record of 97–57, winning its 25th pennant , finishing 8 games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles . New York was managed by Casey Stengel .
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared in at least one game for the New York Yankees franchise, including the 1901–02 Baltimore Orioles, and the 1903–12 New York Highlanders.
Fernando Valenzuela was a teenager in Mexico when Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson clubbed three Game 6 homers to clinch that 1977 series and swung the 1978 series toward New York with his ...
The Yankees added a number "8" patch to their uniforms in honor of Berra, [95] and the Empire State Building was lit with vertical blue and white Yankee "pinstripes" on September 23. [96] New York City lowered all flags in the city to half-staff for a day in tribute. [ 97 ]
John Ellis, who rose from New London’s baseball hotbed to play for the New York Yankees and then dedicated much of his later life to raising money to help families fighting cancer, died Tuesday.
Roger Maris: OF: 1 1960 Bobby Murcer: OF: 1 1972 Norm Siebern ... Silver Slugger Award. Player ... (Managed the Yankees from 1996–2007. Also managed the Los Angeles ...