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YANKEES by the Numbers, (Part II)
- Updated: June 26, 2018
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The 2018 Yankees are putting up all kinds of fabulous numbers in their bid to get into the World Series, For those of you who enjoyed Part I – here are more fabulous Yankee numbers. Enjoy
51
Number worn by Bernie Williams for sixteen Yankee seasons. He is one of 13 players to wear No. 51. His tenure was the longest, 1991-2006. Two future Hall of Famers who wore that number on other teams — Ichiro Suzuki and Randy Johnson — were given other numbers as Yankees. Williams was given No. 51 because an equipment manager thought he played like Willie McGee, the Cardinal great outfielder at the time who wore the number.
52
The first Yankee to wear this number was Johnny Lucadello in 1947. C.C. Sabathia has worn the number since 2009.
Doyle Alexander in 1976 played his only season with the Yankees and wore Number 52.
53
Don Mattingly, most doubles in a season by a Yankee, 1986
Mariano Rivera saves in 2004, new team record, third-highest total in AL history.
54
Most road wins in a season, 1939
Mickey Mantle, most home runs by switch hitter, 54 in 1961
“Goose” Gossage and Aroldis Chapman, shared this number many years apart.
55
Number worn by Hideki Matsui in tribute to Japan’s legend Sadaharu Oh’s record 55 home runs in a season.
56
Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak included 56 singles and runs scored.
Number assigned to Jim Bouton in spring training 1962. When it was obvious that the rookie was going to make the team, he was given #27. But Bouton wanted to keep #56 to “remind me of how close I was to not making the team.”
“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” – Jim Bouton
Dave Righetti’s rookie number.
57
The 1927 Yankees won 57 games at Yankee Stadium tying an American League record.
Joe DiMaggio allegedly lost out on $10,000 when his streak ended at 56 games; Heinz 57 ended pending endorsement deal.
58
Mariano Rivera’s original number.
58.4%
Stolen base percentage of the 1927 Yankees, fifth in the league. With their power, base stealing was not a priority.
59
Juan Rivera was the last Yankee to wear this number, 2002-2003
60
Babe Ruth’s record setting home run total produced 100 RBI’s.
“61”
The film 61* was shot in Detroit, not Yankee Stadium. Filmmaker Billy Crystal explained that the look of the ballpark there resembled the 1961Yankee Stadium more closely than the current Yankee Stadium at the time of the film’s shooting in 2000.
62
Number of strikeouts Allie Reynolds recorded in 15 World Series games.
63
During his 56 game hitting streak, Joe DiMaggio hit safely against 63 right-handed pitchers.
On August 13, 1995, Mickey Mantle died of complications from liver cancer at the age of 63.
Original number given to Bernade Figueroa “Bernie” Williams, 1991
65
The number of games Mickey Mantle played in 12 World Series.
$65,000
Highest salary reportedly paid to Phil Rizzuto, 1951. That is $600,000 in today’s dollars.
66
Yankee players who wore number 66: Steve Baboni, Jim DeShales, Juan Miranda, and Andrew Brackman, J.R. Murphy
68
Dione Navarro and Dellin Batances wore this number for Yankees.
69
Alan Mills in 1990 wore this number for the Yankees.
71
Yogi Berra, most career hits in World Series
72
Games won by Highlanders in their first season.
Babe Ruth set a major league record by homering twice in a game seventy-two times.
Mariano Rivera earned his first save on May 17, 1996 against the Angels at the Stadium. Andy Pettitte got the win. Rivera saved 72 of Pettitte’s wins, a record for any starter/closer combination.
73
Gary Sanchez wore this number in 2015.
74
Franchise record for stolen bases set by Fritz Maisel in 1914, broken by Rickey Henderson in 1985.
Derek Jeter wore No. 74 in his first spring training in 1994. The next year Yankees equipment manager Rob Cucuzza gave Jeter No. 2.
“Give him 2; he’s going to be special.” – Buck Showalter
75
Yogi Berra appeared in seventy-five World Series games, most in baseball history.
77
Humberto Sanchez wore this number in 2008.
80
A 10-5 triumph over Oakland on August 4, 1998 in the second game of a doubleheader gave the Yankees 80 wins in their 108th game, earliest in franchise history.
81
No one ever wore this Yankee uniform number
82
Most times caught stealing in a season, 1920, a franchise record.
83
Of 158 home runs hit by the 1927 Yankees, 83 were hit at Yankee Stadium
88
Number of pitches David Cone tossed in perfect game, July 19, 1999 – 68 strikes and 20 balls.
89
The Yankees and the Orioles played to a 1-1 tie September 30, 2001, in 15 innings, the 89th tie in franchise history. It was Cal Ripken’s last game at Yankee Stadium.
91
The fewest errors in a season – 1996 Yankees
Number worn by Alfredo Aceves
93
Most stolen bases by a Yankee in a season, Rickey Henderson, 1988
94
Yankee World Series strikeout leader in 22 games, 146 innings
95
Dave Righetti’s no-hitter on July 4th, was pitched on a day temperature at the Stadium reached 95 degrees.
95.1%
Although part of the first Hall of Fame inductee class, Babe Ruth was strangely not voted in unanimously. He received 95.1% of the votes
96.88
Dan Topping, Larry MacPhail and Del Web Topping purchased this percentage of Yankees from Jacob Ruppert estate in January of 1945.
97
Don Larsen used this number of pitches to hurl his perfect game against the Dodgers at Yankee Stadium in the 1956 World Series.
99
| The highest uniform number ever issued by the New York Yankees went to Charlie Keller (1952) and Brian Bruney (2009). |
100
Only two Yankee clubs have lost more than 100 games in a season: 1912, 50-102, 1908, 51-103
Babe Ruth on September 24, 1920 hit his 100th home run. It was off Washington’s Jim Shaw.
Derek Jeter became along with Earl Combs and Ted Williams, the only one to score a hundred runs in each their first seven seasons.
About Harvey Frommer
One of the most prolific and respected sports journalists and oral historians in the United States, author of the autobiographies of legends Nolan Ryan, Tony Dorsett, and Red Holzman, Dr. Harvey Frommer is an expert on the New York Yankees and has arguably written more books, articles and reviews on the New York Yankees than anyone.
A professor for more than two decades in the MALS program at Dartmouth College, Frommer was dubbed “Dartmouth’s Mr. Baseball” by their alumni magazine. He’s also the founder of www.HarveyFrommerSports.com.
He is the author of the acclaimed The Ultimate Yankee Book http://www.frommerbooks.com/ultimate-yankees.html
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