Prayers up for Easton Oliverson of the Snow Canyon team out of Santa Clara, Utah who fell off a top bunk and suffered a fractured skull at the LLWS in Williamsburg, PA.
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Thurman Munson had nine-straight seasons of at least 1000 innings and 100 complete games caught. No Hall of Fame catcher can claim that. During his 11-year career, he NEVER went on the injured list.
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โMy father was a mailman and he worked hard and did the best he could. To me, thatโs a hero, thatโs a role model.โ
~ Don Mattingly
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If you're trying to find some modern player who compares in some way to Lou Gehrig, forget it. Gehrig hit better than .300 for 12 straight years and better than .340 eight of those years. He was quite simply the best first baseman ever to play the game.
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โI don't even watch the game anymore, It breaks my heart that I can't sit down and watch nine innings of baseball because it's not the game I was brought up playing and respecting and loving.โ
~ Goose Gossage
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Perfection: The pitchers and catchers of the only 3 perfect games in Yankees history - Joe Girardi, David Cone โPG 7-18-99.โ, Jorge Posada, David Wells โPG 5-17-98โ, Yogi Berra and Don Larsen โPG 10-8-56โ
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Ron "Louisiana Lightning" Guidry went 25-3 with a 1.74 ERA in 1978. He struck out 248 batters while pitching an astounding 9 shutouts.
Was this the greatest pitching season ever?
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Mickey Mantle played on 12 pennant winners and 7 World Championship clubs. He still holds the records for most World Series home runs (18), RBIs (40), runs (42), walks (43), extra-base hits (26), and total bases (123).
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โJorge Posada may never get the recognition Thurman Munson, Bill Dickey or Yogi Berra, he may never even get into the Hall of Fame. Posada, however, is still one of the greatest New York Yankee catchers.โ
~ Joe Acampado
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โHe [Mariano Rivera] threw one pitch, man. He threw one pitch. And it was so damn good that it didn't matter. That's why to me, he's the most amazing pitcher in the history of the game.โ
~ David Ortiz
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A young and nervous Yogi Berra, in his first full season, finds the courage to ask Babe Ruth to pose for a photo in 1947. Babe passed away the following year, and Yogi went on to an illustrious career. This is the only photo of the two legends together.
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Thurman Munson had nine consecutive seasons with 1,000-plus innings caught and 100-plus complete games caught โ not one Hall of Fame Catcher can match.
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โAfter I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.โ
~ Mickey Mantle
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โAfter I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.โ
~ Mickey Mantle
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โTalk of Don Mattinglyโs worthiness for enshrinement in the Hall of Fame most often focuses on his offensive statistics. Perhaps not enough is said about his defense. Mattingly has the best career fielding percentage of any player โ ever โ at any position.โ - Lincoln Ray
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โI spent my whole career grinding for more and trying to win. Chasing hits. Chasing a .300 average. Chasing 100 runs batted in. Most of all, I was chasing championships.โ
~ Paul OโNeill
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When considering Donnie Baseball for the Hall of Fame, there is really only one argument. He had an elite, elite peak.
Should Donnie be enshrined in Cooperstown?
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โThat first day I got to put on the uniform and sit in the dugout, nobody was in the stands; nobody was on the field. I was there by myself, sitting in the dugout crying because I had accomplished my childhood dream.โ
~ Jorge Posada
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โI think he's [Don Mattingly] the greatest single player in our game. If he isn't the best, I'd like to know who is.โ - George Brett (1988)
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In 1985, Don Mattingly made Yankees history as the clubโs first AL MVP winner since Thurman Munson in 1976. Mattingly batted .324 with 35 homers and 145 RBI.
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โAfter I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.โ
~ Mickey Mantle
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โAndy Pettitte's Hall of Fame case is fairly simple. He won 256 games. There are only five pitchers since 1901 with more than 250 wins who are not in the Hall of Fame.โ
~ Chris Bodig
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Donnie Baseball won nine Gold Glove Awards (including five straight), three Silver Slugger Awards, the 1984 American League batting title, and was the 1985 American League Most Valuable Player.
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Willie Randolph played in the shadow of other more flamboyant stars, but he was a consistent performer and often the most reliable. He was shunned by Cooperstown, but the Bronx faithful remembers him as one of the better players in their history.
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An outstanding second baseman, Willie Randolph was also consistent with the bat. During his first six seasons with the Yankees, they won four AL pennants and two World Series titles.
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โThere may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.โ
~ Derek Jeter
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It was 43 years ago today that a fateful plane crash killed legendary Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, sending the sports world into shock. His stunning death still resonates all these years later.
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Thurman Munson was the heart and soul of the โ70s Yankees. He captained the team to three World Series appearances, including two championships. He won AL Rookie of the Year (โ70) and AL MVP (โ76) honors, as well as three Gold Glove Awards.
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โHeโs [Don Mattingly] the guy they penciled in hitting 4th in the lineup of All-Stars. . . Great defensive player, difference maker. . . A great clutch hitter. . . And I think heโs a Hall-of-Famer.โ - Cal Ripken Jr. revealing his biggest Hall of Fame snub (Jan. 21, 2022)
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โBernie Williams โ whose 16-season New York Yankees career lasted from 1991 to 2006 โ may at best be a borderline Cooperstown inductee, but he was a more-than-worthy successor to Joe D. and The Mick as a center fielder par excellence.โ
~ Rob Edelman
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โHe [Bernie Williams] wasnโt a dynamic superstar, but he was a superstar. A switch-hitter that hits for power, gets clutch hits and hits in the middle of the order? Thatโs invaluable.โ
~ Michael Kay
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โOne thing with me, I'm very, very loyal โ very loyal โ but loyalty one way is stupidity, and I expect the same thing in return. If I feel as if you're taking advantage or trying to take advantage of me, I'm done.โ
~ Derek Jeter
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30 Years Ago Today: The Yankees land Paul โThe Warriorโ OโNeill in an iconic trade that would change the fortunes of the franchise for years to come. โพ๏ธ
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โGraig Nettles is the greatest fielding third baseman of all-time. . . Better than Boyer. Better than Brooks. Better than two gifted young men named Buddy Bell and Mike Schmidt.โย ~ย Mike Lupica
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โHereโs my asterisk: Roger Maris is still the reigning home run king for one season. He broke Babe Ruthโs single-season record fair and square. A legitimate record by a legitimate baseball player. Maris accomplished all of this, and he did so steroid free.โ
~ Phil Rossi
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Constantino โTinoโ Martinez was the man called on to take the place of a beloved Yankee legend โ Donnie Baseball. Tino more than delivered. He was a vital part of four championship teams in his seven seasons in the Bronx.
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Yogi Berra holds the record for the most World Series appearances, as well as the record for most World Series wins. He played in 14 World Series and earned ten World Series rings all as a New York Yankee.
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Bobby Murcer was the only Yankee to be teammates with Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Thurman Munson, Elston Howard, Roger Maris, Reggie Jackson, Don Mattingly and Ron Guidry.
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โAs it turned out, Murcer wasn't Mantle as a player. Murcer was very good, but not great; an All-Star, not a Hall of Famer. And to Murcer, and to those of us lucky enough to have crossed paths with him, being Bobby Murcer was more than enough.โ - Moss Klein
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โHis winning percentage is better than ten Hall of Fame managers and is one of the highest of anybody who hasnโt been elected yet. And how about this? Itโs the Hall ofย Fame, right? How many managers were more famous than my father? Not many.โ - Billy Martin Jr.
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Derek Jeter was the first MLB player ever to reach all of these statistical milestones: 3400 hits, 260 home runs, 350 stolen bases and 1300 RBI.
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โDonnie is the best first baseman I haveย ever seen because he practices harder than most guys play. Intensity pays in the game and Donnie is focused from the minute he gets to the ballpark. His mental sharpness makes him very special.โ ~ย Tony Kubek
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"A humble man of grace and dignity, a captain who led by example, proud of the pinstripe tradition and dedicated to the pursuit of excellence, a Yankee forever."
~ Don Mattinglyโs plaque in Monument Park
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โYankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto was so popular with the fans that they couldn't let him go after his retirement in 1956. After announcing his retirement, he signed on as the Yankees announcer on December 18th, 1956, a position he held for 40 years.โ
~ Nicole Conlan
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"Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century." - Mickey Mantle
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โWhy is Sandy Koufax in the Hall of Fame today? I know what I think. A lot of [Koufaxโs] stuff was [based] on what would have been. And if youโre going to start going there, Mattinglyโs a first-ballot guy.โ
~ Buck Showalter
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Graig Nettles was renowned for two facets of his game: power and fielding. Nettles hit more homers than any other third basemen except Eddie Mathews and Mike Schmidt, and Nettles' acrobatic plays at third helped clinch World Series victories for the
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in 1977 and 1978.
Phil Rizzuto was a fixture on television and radio, before retiring in 1996 after forty years in the booth. His partnership with Bill White entertained Yankee fans for a generation.
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'I've never thought of myself as an exciting player. A guy like Rickey Henderson is an exciting player. He gets on base, he steals second and third. I'm a Willie Randolph kind of player - do the job consistently, day in, day out.โย ~ย Don Mattingly
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"Not only was I not the best catcher in the major leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street,"
~ Joe Garagiola on Yogi Berra, his childhood neighbor and lifelong friend
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"He's [Billy Martin] the only guy I know who could hear a guy give him the finger from the back of the barroom."ย ~ Mickey Mantleย
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