Sunday was a pretty busy day for me today so good friend of the blog Mike Sommer (you can read more from Mike here) stepped up with a few posts from his Classic Yankees series. In case you missed it, he has already written plenty of these. Here is the list.
- Jacob Ruppert (as owner 1914-1936)
- Miller Huggins (1918-1929)
- Bob Meusel (1920-1929)
- Waite Hoyt (1921-1930)
- Herb Pennock (1923-1930)
- Earle Combs (1924-1935)
- Tony Lazzeri (1926-1937)
- Bill Dickey (1928-1946)
- Lefty Gomez (1930-1942)
- Red Ruffing (1930-1942, 1945-1946)
- Frank Crosetti (1932-1948)
- Spud Chandler (1937-1947)
- Joe Gordon (1938-1943, 1946)
- Charlie Keller (1939-1949, 1952)
- Snuffy Stirnweiss (1943-1950)
- Vic Raschi (1946-1953)
- Bobby Brown (1946-1952, 1954)
- Allie Reynolds (1947-1954)
- Hank Bauer (1948-1959)
- Eddie Lopat (1948-1955)
- Jerry Coleman (1949-1957)
- Gil McDougald (1951-1960)
- Moose Skowron (1954-1962)
- Bobby Richardson (1955-1966)
- Elston Howard (1955-1967)
- Tony Kubek (1957-1965)
- Joe Pepitone (1962-1969)
- Mel Stottlemyre (1964-1974)
- Roy White (1965-1979)
- Fritz Peterson (1966-1974)
- Sparky Lyle (1972-1978)
- Graig Nettles (1973-1983)
- Lou Piniella (1974-1984 as player, 1986-1988 as manager)
- Chris Chambliss (1974-1979, 1988)
- Ed Figueroa (1976-1980)
- Willie Randolph (1976-1988)
- Paul Blair (1977-1979, 1980)
- Bernie Williams (1991-2006)
- Jimmy Key (1993-1996)
- Paul O’Neill (1993-2001)
- David Cone (1995-2000)
- Tino Martinez (1996-2000, 2005)
- Joe Torre (1996-2007)
- Orlando Hernandez (1998-2004)
- Mike Mussina (2001-2008)
- The People Behind the Scenes
Wow. That is a lot of work. Hat's off to Mike Sommer on this extensive and informative series.