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In 1971, White joined the New York Yankees' broadcast team. He called Yankee games from 1971 to 1988, most often teamed with Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. [20] White did the team's broadcasts on both radio and television during most of that stretch. White was the first regular black play-by-play announcer for a major-league sports team. [21] [1]
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. Players in bold are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Players in italics have had their numbers retired by the team.
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.
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 ...
The New York Yankees selected Greene in the eighth round, 255th overall, in the 2019 MLB draft. [58] The New York Mets selected Greene from the Yankees in the 2022 Rule 5 draft. [59] On March 12, 2023, Greene was removed from the 40-man roster and placed on outright waivers. [60] Greene was returned to the Yankees organization on March 14. [61]
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 ...
Yankeeography is a biography-style television program that chronicles the lives and careers of the players, coaches, and other notable personnel associated with the New York Yankees Major League Baseball team. The series is aired on the YES Network and is produced by MLB Productions. [1] The series is hosted by Yankees radio personality John ...
October 6 – The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5–2, in Game 7 of the World Series to win their eleventh World Championship, four games to three. This was the first World Series involving a nonwhite player, as Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson had racially integrated Major League Baseball at the beginning of the season.