This Week in Yankee History

August 3rd - August 9th

August 3rd

1914 - Yankees C Les Nunamaker throws out 3 consecutive Tiger base runners in 1st inning of Yankee 4-1 lost to Detroit. Each Tiger base runner had singled and were thrown out at 2nd base caught trying to steal.

1920 - Former Yankees Bullpen Coach Jim Hegan (1964-1973) was born. Jim was a MLB catcher from 1941-1960, mainly with the Cleveland Indians. His son, Mike Hegan played for the Yankees (1964,1966-67,1973-74). They were the 1st Father-Son combination to appear in a World Series together in 1964 with the Yankees against the Cardinals.

1933 - The Yankees 308-game scoring streak comes to an end when the A’s HOF starter Lefty Grove hangs a 5-hit, 7-0 shutout win over the Yankees. The Yankees responded by scoring at least 1 run in every game they played for the rest of the 1933 AL season.

1940 - Former Yankees OF Roger Repoz (1964-1966) was born. Before the 1960 AL Season, Roger was signed by the Yankees as an amateur free agent. Roger hit .232 and .220 for the Yankees during the 1964-65 seasons. At the time of his trade by the Yankees, he was hitting .349, but the team knew that he wasn’t in their future plans. On June 10, 1966, Roger was traded by the Yankees along with pitchers Gil Blanco and Bill Stafford to the A’s for P Fred Talbot and C Billy Bryan. Clippers Note: The Yankees should have held on to Bill Stafford, Fred Talbot was a major disappointment for the Yankees going 14-22 before being sent to the Seattle Pilots.

1967 - The Yankees obtained hurlers Ron Klimkowski and Pete Margini from the Red Sox for veteran AL MVP and All Star C Elston Howard. He could no longer hit the fastball. Ellie was at the end of the line of his fine MLB career, he helped the Red Sox win the AL flag in 1967. Howard stayed on with the Red Sox until 1968 AL season ended. He would return to the Yankees, becoming their 1st black MLB coach in 1969. Ron Klimkowski and Pete Margini never did anything for the Yankees.

1978 - In the continuation of the previous evening’s suspended game the Red Sox score twice in the 17th inning to defeat the Yankees by a score of 7-5. Former Yankees starter Mike Torrez defeats the Yankees 8-1 in a rain shorten regularly scheduled game. The double loss dropped the Yankees to 8 ½ games behind the Red Sox in the AL East.

August 4th

1905 - The Highlanders field a unique battery: Doc Newton pitching and Mike "Doc" Powers catching, but only Powers is a physician. The Highlanders beat the Browns by a score of 7-3.

1910- Former Yankees OF George “Tuck” Stainback (1942-45) was born (1910-1992). George was purchased on December 4, 1941 by the Yankees from the Tigers. His best Yankee season was in 1943, hitting .260 in 71 games. He was sold to the A’s in 1946 where he finished his 13 year MLB career.

1925 - Every player in each team's lineup has at least 1 putout in the Indians-Yankees game.

1928 - Yankees purchased P Fred Heimach from St. Paul (American Association) for cash and other considerations. Fred went 13-9 with the Yankees in 2 seasons before going to the Dodgers.

1929 - The Yankees take the opening game of two from the visiting Indians, winning by a score of 12 -0. Yankees starter Tom Zachary wins his 7th straight game. In the 2nd game, after trailing 6-5 with 2 outs in the top of the 9th inning, Cleveland scores an AL record-tying 9 runs, to win the game by a score of 14-6.

1932 - Former Yankees P Jim “Mummy” Coates (1956,1959-62) was born. Before the 1951 AL Season, Jim was signed by the Yankees as an amateur free agent. Jim was AL All Star team member on the 1960-61 teams. His best season as a Yankee pitcher was in 1960, going 13-4 with a .813 WP to lead the AL. Jim appeared in 3 World Series for the Yankees in 1960-1962. On April 21, 1963, Jim was traded by the Yankees to the Senators for P Steve Hamilton, when the team needed a lefty reliever to replace the injured Louis Arroyo in the bullpen. Jim would play for the Reds and Angels before retiring from the MLB in 1967.

1932 - Yankees C Bill Dickey returns to the Yankees lineup after his month's suspension for fighting at home plate in a game. Bill had punched a base runner in the face, breaking the player’s jaw. Bill hits a grand slam HR and 3 singles, as Yankees beat the White Sox by a score of 15-3.

1934 - Former Yankees Manager and MLB player Dallas Green (1989) was born. The Yankees were 56-65 in 5th place in the AL East, when he was fired.

1939 - Former Yankees P Bob Meyer (1964) was born. Before the 1960 AL Season, Bob was signed by the Yankees as an amateur free agent. Bob went 0-3 in 7 games for the Yankees in 1964. On June 12, 1964, Bob was purchased by the Angels from the Yankees.

1947 - The Yankees sell P Al Lyons to the Pirates. Al went 1-1 in 19 games for the Yankees (1944-46) before being sent to the Bucs.

1952 - Yankees sell P Bob Hogue to Browns for cash. On July 31, 1951, Bob was purchased by the Yankees from the Browns. He went 4-5 in 34 games before being sent back to the Browns during the 1952 AL season.

1953 - Yankees starter Vic Raschi sets a MLB record by driving in 7 runs in a Yankees 15-0 victory over Detroit, still the record for most runs battled in by a pitcher in one game. Raschi singled in 2 runs in 2nd inning, doubled home 3 more in the 3rd inning and then capped it off with 2-run single in the 8th inning. His Yankee teammates responded by filling up his locker to the roof with bats after the game.

1962 - Former Yankees P Roger “the Rocket” Clemens (1998-2003, 2007) was born. On February 18, 1999, Roger was traded by the Blue Jays to the Yankees for INF Homer Bush, Pitchers Graeme Lloyd, and David Wells. Roger posted an 83-39 mark in 175 games with the Yankees. He was 5-5 in World Series play. His best Yankees season was in 2000, when Roger went 20-3 for the Yankees. After the 2003, Roger left the Yankees signing with his hometown Houston Astros along with Yankees free agent starter Andy Pettitte.

1963 - After missing 61 games, Mickey Mantle returns to the Yankees lineup as a pinch hitter for reliever Steve Hamilton. The Orioles are leading 10-9 in the 7th inning, when the stiff-legged Mantle golfs a line drive to tie the game at 10. The emotional Yankees win it, by a score of 11-10, after the Orioles had taken the opener, by a score of 7-2.

1964 - A's starter John O'Donoghue gives up his 3rd HR to Mickey Mantle this year, but that's all he allows, as Kansas City tops the visiting Yankees, by a score of 5-1.

1972 - Yankees CF Bobby Murcer's grand slam HR in the 7th inning clinches the Yankees 9-4 win over the Brewers. Bobby Murcer also scores twice on walks.

1973 - Yankees relief ace P Lindy McDaniel hurls 13 innings of near perfect relief, and comes out a winner when 2B Horace Clarke’s 13th inning HR gives the Yankees a 3-2 over the Tigers. Yankees hurler Fritz Peterson had started the game but departed in the 1st inning with a muscle pull.

1978 - Orioles starter Mike Flanagan hands Ron Guidry his 2nd loss of the 1978 AL season, by stopping the Yankees by a score of 2-1.

1983 - While warming up before the 5th inning of the Yankees 3 -1 win over the Blue Jays game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, OF Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull with a thrown ball. After the game, Winfield is brought to the Ontario Provincial Police station on charges of cruelty to animals and is forced to post a $500 bond before being released. The charges will be dropped the following day.

1985 - Tom Seaver becomes the 17th MLB pitcher to win 300 MLB games. Seaver pitches the White Sox to a 4-1, 6-hit victory over the Yankees on “Phil Rizzuto Day” at Yankee Stadium as a crowd of 54,032 New Yorkers cheer him on.

1989 - Hard-luck pitcher Blue Jays P Dave Stieb loses a perfect game when Yankees OF Roberto Kelly doubles with 2 outs in the 9th inning. Stieb finishes the game with a 2 -1 victory, a 2-hitter. It is the 3rd time that Dave Stieb has lost a no-hitter with 2 outs in the 9th inning.

1998- Yankees OF Darryl Strawberry's pinch-hitter grand slam HR is the big blow in Yankees 9-run rally in the 9th inning, as the Yankees come from behind to defeat the A's by a score of 10-5 in the 2nd game of a double header. It is his 2nd pinch-hitter slam of the 1998 AL season, setting a new AL record, and tying the NL mark held by his former Mets manager, Davey Johnson, and Mike Ivie, both set the mark in 1978. New York also wins the 1st game of the twin-bill, by a score of 10-4.

2007 - Yankees All Star 3B Alex Rodriguez hits his 500 MLB Career HR. He becomes the youngest player in MLB history to reach the 500 HR mark. His 3-run HR shot leads the Yankees to a 16-8 pounding of the Royals at Yankee

August 5th

1872 - Former Yankees P Merle “Doc” Adkins (1903) was born. Doc went 0-0 in 2 games for the Yankees.

1899 - Former Yankees P Sam Gibson (1930) was born. Sam went 0-1 in 2 games with the Yankees.

1904 - The Highlanders beat Indians by a score of 5-0, to send the AL into a virtual 3-way tie. New York is 1st (.614) with Chicago (.613) and Cleveland (.611) close behind.

1905 - Highlanders 1B Hal Chase has a record 38 putouts in a doubleheader sweep versus the visiting Browns. The Highlanders win the games by scores of 3-1 and 6-5.

1935 - In a rain-soaked game between the Yankees and the Red Sox, Lou Gehrig leaves in the 4th inning with another lumbago attack. The teams engage in stalling and hurry-up tactics, and AL President Heydler fines both managers, Red Sox Joe Cronin and Yankees Joe McCarthy $100 each.

1959 - At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Detroit's Don Mossi and Yankees Bobby Shantz by belting an 8th inning HR with one on. New York wins the game, by a score of 3-0.

1983 - AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees Manager Billy Martin for the 2nd time in the 1983 AL season because of continuing abuse of AL umpires. Martin is suspended for 2 games for calling umpire Dale Ford "a stone liar" after a July 31st game with the White Sox. He earned a 3-game suspension earlier this year for kicking dirt on AL umpire Drew Coble.

2001 - Former Yankees OF Dave Winfield, Twins Kirby Puckett, Pirates Bill Mazeroski, and Negro League star Hilton Smith are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

August 6th

1903 - Former Yankees pitcher (1942-45) and long time pitching coach Jim Turner for Yankees Manager Casey Stengel was born. Jim went 11-9 in 88 games with 19 saves. He led the AL in 1945 with 10 saves. He would be Casey Stengel’s pitching coach during the 1950’s world championship teams. Jim was replaced by Eddie Lopat after the 1959 AL Season. He would return to the Yankees in 1966, after spending time with the Reds, being a pitching coach until 1973, under Manager Ralph Houk.

1929 - After the visiting Senators out slug the Yankees by a score of 13-11, New York earns a split, with an 8-0 victory, on 2 HRs by Babe Ruth. The 1st is a grand slam in the 5th inning, his 26th HR of the year. Heimach scatters 3 hits to earn the nightcap win. Buddy Myers 4 hits, including 3 doubles in the opener, paces a 14-hit Nats attack. Durst, Cronin and West homer for the Senators.

1937 - In a 10-inning game the Indian outfielders have no chances against the Yankees. In the 10th inning, Joe DiMaggio hits a drive which 3B Odell Hale deflects into foul territory. One umpire calls it foul, so the Indians LF fails to chase after the ball. But the other umpire overrules the first, allowing the winning run to score because of the OF's idleness. Cleveland protest of the game will be upheld.

1945 - Former Yankees P Andy Messersmith (1978) was born. On December 7, 1977, Andy was purchased by the Yankees from the Braves. Andy went 0-3 in 6 games for the Yankees in 1978. He had suffered a shoulder injury while running into 1B Cliff Johnson during a spring training game. In 1979, he signed with the Dodgers.

1949 - Yankees sell 1B Jack Phillips to the Pirates for cash. He was hitting .302 for the Yankees at the time of the trade to the Pirates.

1961 - Mickey Mantle leads the Yankees to a doubleheader sweep of the Twins, going 5-for-9 with 3 HRs and a double. His 4 RBIs gives him an even 100 for the year and his homer total is now at 43. In the opener, Mantle's had 2 HRs off his favorite pitcher Pedro Ramos, but it is Johnny Blanchard's HR in the 10th inning that ties the game at 6-6. In the 15th inning, Yogi Berra hits a bases loaded grounder and just beat the throw at 1st to give the Yankees the win. The Yankees win the nightcap by a run as well, when Clete Boyer drives in Mantle in the 9th inning to break a 2-2 tie. Yankees now leads the Tigers by 2 1/2 games.

1963 - Yankees starter Stan Williams 1-hits the Senators beating them by a score of 1-0, giving up a double to Don Blasingame. He strikes out 11 Senators batters, while only issuing 1 walk. Tony Kubek’s triple scores the Yankees lone run in the game.

1965 - After hitting 7-for-11 against the White Sox, Mickey Mantle loops a HR off of Mickey Lolich, but Detroit still tops the visiting Yankees, by a score of 5-4. New York will win tomorrow and Mick will add another HR.

1971 - The Yankees kayo Orioles starter Pat Dobson in the 4th inning, beating the Birds by a score of 12-3. The loss ends Dobson's winning streak of 12 games, his 9 consecutive complete games, and his consecutive scoreless inning streak of 23.

1979 - After delivering a eulogy at Thurman Munson's funeral in Ohio, Bobby Murcer, a teammate and close friend of the deceased Yankees captain and catcher, drives in all the runs in the Yankee 5-4 comeback victory over the Orioles at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees outfielder hits a 3-run HR and wins the game with 2-run single in 9th inning.

1981 - As a result of the nearly 2-month interruption in play because of the strike the MLB owners elect to split the 1981 season into 2 halves, with the 1st-place teams from each half in each division (or a wild-card team if the same club wins both halves) meeting in a best-of-5 divisional playoff series. The last time the MLB played a split season was 1892. The A's, Yankees, Phillies, and Dodgers suddenly find themselves guaranteed playoff spots as 1st-half division champions in their leagues.

1982 - The Yankees trade their 1978 AL Playoffs hero Bucky Dent to the Rangers for OF Lee Mazzilli. Dent was hitting only .169 and had lost his starting shortstop job to Roy Smalley, who had been acquired from the Twins.

1996 - Darryl Strawberry strokes 3 HRs off of pitcher Kevin Tapani in the Yankees 9-2 victory over the White Sox. In doing so, he becomes just the 8th player to hit 3 Hrs in a game in both leagues. The others to do it were Babe Ruth, Johnny Mize, Dave Kingman, Cory Snyder, Darnell Coles, Claudell Washington, and Larry Parrish.

2003 - Three weeks after trading for Armando Benitez with the cross-town Mets, the Yankees trade the much maligned reliever to the Mariners. In return, the Yankees get back 36-year-old relief pitcher Jeff Nelson for his 2nd tour with the Bombers.

August 7th

1886 - Former Yankees INF and HOF MLB Manager James “Bill” McKechnie (1913) was born. Bill hit only .134 for the Yankees in 1913. He would have a long successful career as a MLB Manager (Pirates, Cardinals, Braves and Reds) in the NL appearing in 4 World Series (1925, 1928 and 1939-40). Bill faced his old team the Yankees in 1928 and 1939 World Series. He was elected to Baseball’s Hall Of Fame in 1962.

1915 - Another Hall of Famer player takes a turn on the mound, as George Sisler pitches to 2 Yankees in the 6th inning, hitting one and walking the other. Browns-Yankees game is called at the end of 10 innings with the score tied at 4-4.

1918 - Former Yankees P Marlin Stuart (1954) was born. He never pitched for the Yankees at MLB level and would be traded to Orioles in 1954.

1929 - Former Yankees P Don Larsen (1955-1956) was born. Don went 45-24 in 121 games with the Yankees from 1955-1959 after coming to the Yankees in the big 17-player trade with the Orioles in the winter of 1954. His greatest monment as a Yankees pitcher was his Perfect Game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1956 World Series. After the 1959 AL season, Don was traded to the A’s along with OF Hank Bauer, 1B Marv Throneberry and OF Norm Seibren for the A’s OF Roger Maris, INF Joe DiMasteri and 1B Kent Hadley. Don would appear in one more World Series in 1962, as a member of the Giants, working out of their bullpen against his former teammates.

1929 - For the 2nd game in a row, Babe Ruth hits a grand slam HR as the Yankees roll to a 13-1 win over the A's in the opener. Mickey Cochrane’s HR in his one at bat for the A's only run as the Yankees score 10 runs in the 1st two innings. George Pipgras is the winner for the Yankees. The A's take the nightcap, by a score of 4 -2, as starter George Earnshaw goes 8 innings for the A’s win.

1938 - Yankees starter Red Ruffing’s no-hit bid ends in the 9th inning, when Indians OF Roy Weathery doubles with 1-out, the Yankees win the game by a score of 7-0.

1948 - Before a crowd of 66,000 fans, Yankees starter Vic Raschi (14-4) allows 4 singles in stopping the Indians, by a score of 5-0. Joe DiMaggio has a pair of doubles, drives in 3-runs, and swipes home on the front end of a double steal.

1949 - Lineup juggling is a Casey Stengel manager’s forte as his Yankees suffer injury after injury. Against the Browns, 13 different Yankees score a run in the 1st game of a doubleheader, which Yankees win by a score of 20-2, the second game ends in 2-2 tie.

1954 - Yankees waived veteran P Bob Kuzava (1951-1954) to the Orioles. Bob went 23-20 in 88 games with 13 saves for the Yankees. His best season was in 1951, going 8-4 with 5 saves. He appeared in 3 World Series with the Yankees with 2 saves.

1955 - After a 12-17 record in July, the Yankees are in a 4-team race. Tigers starter Frank Lary beats New York, by a score of 4-2 in game 1, and the Yankees then earn a critical 3-2 10th-inning win on a Mickey Mantle HR off of pitcher Babe Birrer in the 2nd game.

1956 - The Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans, as the Red Sox edge the Yankees in 11 innings on Williams's bases-loaded walk. It is Williams's 3rd spitting incident in 3 weeks. The spitting started after the crowd of 36,350, a record for night games at Fenway Park, started booing the Splendid Splinter for muffing Yankees Mickey Mantle's windblown fly in the 11th inning. Before the game, former Yankee, now Red Sox RF Jackie Jensen had to be restrained by teammates from going into the stands after a heckler. The previous year Jensen had challenged a fan to come out of the stands.

1957 - Hank Bauer of the Yankees hits his 2nd consecutive lead-off HR, against the Senators, as the 1st-place Yankees lose by a score of 3-2.

1962 - Yankees Shortstop Tony Kubek, in his 1st at bat after returning from active duty in the Army, homers in a 14-1, Yankees win over the Twins at Yankee Stadium.

1964 - Baltimore pitchers Steve Barber and Harvey Haddix beat the Yankees by a score of 2- 0 to boost the Orioles back into 1st place.

1968 - Oakland's Joe Keough makes his MLB debut with a first-at bat, HR in a 2nd-game 4-3 win over the Yankees. New York wins the opener by a score of 3-0.

1972 - Ron Allen hits 3-HRS as the Yankees beat the Dodgers 8-3 in the annual Hall of Fame game at Doubleday field in Cooperstown, NY. The contest is preceded by inductions of 8 new Hall Of Fame members.

1973 - Yankees obtained P Wayne Granger from the Cardinals for future considerations and cash. The Yankees will send minor league P Ken Crosby to the Cardinals to complete the deal. Wayne would go 0-1 in 7 games for the Yankees.

1977 - Mike Torrez snaps a 3-game Yankee losing streak with his 3rd straight victory. The Yankees will win 20 of their next 23 games over their Western Division AL opponents.

1983 - The Yankees honor longtime All Star OF Bobby Mercer by giving him a day at the Yankee Stadium.

1984 - The White Sox and Yankees split a doubleheader with Chicago's 6-3 triumph in Game 1 stopping New York's 8-game winning streak. Former Yankees minor league hurler LaMarr Hoyt is the winner for the White Sox. Ron Guidry strikes out 13 to win the nightcap, by a score of 7-0. The Gator finishes with a flourish, striking out the side on 9 pitches in the 9th inning.

1998 - Yankees Rookie OF Shane Spencer gets 5 hits, including 2 doubles and 2 HRs, while driving home 3 runs and scoring 4 in New York's 14-2 pasting of Royals, in the 2nd game of a doubleheader. The Yankees also took the 1st contest by a score of 8-2.

2000 - The Yankees obtained DH Jose Canseco from the Devil Rays. The move, which mystifies even Yankees Manager Joe Torre, is presumably designed to keep the high priced slugger away from other AL East rivals.

2003 - Former Yankees P Mickey McDermott (1956) passed away. (1923-2003). Mickey came to the Yankees in a mid season trade with the Senators in 1956. He went 2-6 in 23 games for the Yankees. He was sent to the A’s in February of 1957 in the Bobby Shantz trade.

August 8th

1897 - Former Yankees P Ken Holloway (1930) was born. Ken went 0-0 in 16 games with the Yankees in 1930.

1913 - Yankees obtain 3B Fritz Maisel (1913-17) from Baltimore Orioles (International League) for 3B Ezra Midkiff and OF Bert Daniels.

1920 - The Yankees lose shortest game in AL history, 1-0 in just 1 hour and 13 minutes to Tigers behind starter Howard Ehmke. Yankees CF Ping Bodie added to embarrassment by falling for the hidden ball trick when Yankees had runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs in 5th inning.

1967 - Yankees purchased C Bob Tillman (1967) from Red Sox for cash. He will hit .254 for the season for the Yankees, before he was traded to Braves after the 1967 AL season for 3B Bobby Cox.

1972 - The Yankees signed a 30-year lease to play in city owned Yankee Stadium to commence in 1976. The plans called for 24 million dollar remodeling for 2 years. The actual cost ends up being close to 55 million dollars.

August 9th

1919 - Former Yankees Player (1947-54), Coach, Manager (1961-1963, 1966-1973) General Manager (1964-66), Ralph “The Major” Houk was born. Ralph was a Yankee back-up catcher (1947-54). He was clled the Major from his WWII service days in which he won a Bronze Star during the Battle of the Bulge. He became a Yankee bullpen coach in 1955, before going to Denver (AAA) to manage in the Yankees farm system. He returned to the Yankees to coach under Casey Stengel in 1960. He replaced Stengel as Yankees manager in 1961, winning AL Flags from 1961-1963 and winning 2 World Championships (1961-62). In 1964, he became the Yankees General Manager with Yogi Berra taking over as Yankees Manager. Ralph fired Yogi after the 1964 World Series replacing him with ex-Cardinals Manager Johnny Keane. He replaced Keane in 1966, staying with the team in end of the 1973 AL season, resigning because of problems with new Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner. Ralph had been with the Yankees organization for over 30 years. He would later manage the Red Sox and Tigers before retiring from MLB baseball.

1919 - Former Yankees P Fred Sanford (1949-51) was born. On December 13, 1948, Fred was traded by the Browns along with Roy Partee to the Yankees for C Sherm Lollar, P Red Embree, INF Richard Starr, and $100,000. Fred went 12-10 in 46 games with the Yankees. On June 15, 1951, he was traded by the Yankees along with P Tom Ferrick and Bob Porterfield to the Senators for P Bob Kuzava.

1925 - OF Bobby Veach pinch hits for Babe Ruth. This was only time in Ruth’s career that a Yankee battled in his place. He flied out; the Yankees lose the game by the score of 4-3 in 12 innings.

1934 - Former Yankees P Eli Grba (1959-1960) was born. Elia was originally signed by Red Sox. On March 14, 1957, he was traded by the Red Sox along with OF Gordie Windhorn to the Yankees for OF Bill Renna. Grba went 8-9 in 53 games for the Yankees (1959-1960) before being drafted by expansion Angels in December of 1960. He would later work in the Brewers farm system as a pitching instructor.

1939 - Yankees 3B Red Rolfe begins an 18-game scoring streak. The Penacook, New Hampshire native will score 30 runs during this period of time.

1940 - Steve Sundra posts his 1st win of the year for the Yankees. The Yankees, at 51-51, seem certain to be out of the running for their 5th straight AL Championship. However, they will go 37-15 the rest of the way and actually make the top for a few hours on September 11th. The Yanks will ultimately finish 3rd place, losing 3 straight games to the Browns on September 15-16th.

1941 - Former Yankees P Paul Linblad (1978) was born. Paul was purchased by the Yankees from the Rangers on August 1, 1978. Paul appeared in 7 games for the Yankees with no record with an ERA of 4.42. He was released to the Mariners after the 1978 AL season.

1944 - The Browns win their 9th straight game for the 2nd time this season in a 3-2 win over the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. They lead AL by 6 1/2 games. St Louis's other team, the Cardinals, after winning 26 in July, now leads the NL by 16 1/2 games. They will both meet in the 1944 World Series.

1946 - Former Yankees reserve C/DH Jerry Moses (1973) was born. Jerry came in the Graig Nettles trade from the Indians. He hit .254 in 59 games.

1948 - Yankees waived P Karl Drews to the Browns. Karl went 8-9 in 53 games with the Yankees.

1949 - Dom DiMaggio's 34-game hitting streak is on the line against Yankees starter Vic Raschi. Hitless in his 1st four at bats, Dom hits a sinking line drive in the 8th inning that his brother Joe catches at his shoe tops. The Red Sox win the game by a score of 6-3 to move 5 1/2 games behind the Yankees. Dom had started his streak after going hitless against Vic Raschi.

1967 - Former Yankees OF Deion “Neon” Sanders (1989-1990) was born. Deion was drafted by the Yankees in the 30th round of the 1988 amateur player draft. Deion hit .196 in 71 games, before being released by the Yankees, on September 24, 1990. He would sign with the Braves.

1975 - Former Yankees INF Mike Lamb (2004) was born. On February 5, 2004, Mike was traded by the Rangers to the Yankees for P Jose Garcia. After the Yankee acquired All Star shortstop Alex Rodriquez from Rangers, Mike became expendable, when the Yankees announced that A-Rod would become the Yankees 3B. On March 25, 2004, Mike was traded by the Yankees to the Astros for Juan DeLeon (minors).

1978 - The Yankees rallied for 5 runs in the 9th inning to beat the Brewers by a score of 8-7 at Yankee Stadium.

1985 - In a 15-4 Tigers mauling of the Yankees, Catcher Rick Cerone takes the mound. Again, he walks one batter and allows no runs, the second time in 3 weeks he's caught and pitched in the same game.

1992 - Yankees rookie starter Sam Militello allows just 1- hit in 7 innings as he defeats the Red Sox, 6-0, in his MLB pitching debut. Sam was drafted by the Yankees in the 6th round of the 1990 amateur player draft. His MLB pitching career record would be 4-4 in 12 games (1991-92) for the Yankees.

1996 - The Tigers defeat the Yankees, by a score of 5 -3, as DH Ruben Sierra, who was traded 9 days ago from the Yankees, drives home all 5 Detroit runs with a double and 3-run HR.

1997 -The Yankees beat Twins starter Brad Radke, by the score of 4 -1, stopping Radke's 12-game winning streak. Yankees reserve INF Luis Sojo snaps the 1-1 tie in the 8th inning with a 2-run HR. Since 1950, only 3 pitchers have won 12 straight games.

1999 - For the 1st time in MLB history, 5 grand slams are hit in a single day. Cardinals Fernando Tatis, Expos Jose Vidro, Marlins Mike Lowell, Yankees Bernie Williams (against the A’s) and Mariners Jay Buhner, all connect to set the MLB record.

2001 - Yankees hurler Ted Lilly is suspended for 6 games for hitting Anaheim's Scott Spiezio in the head with a pitch in a game last Sunday. Yankees manager Joe Torre rips into baseball's Dean of Discipline, Frank Robinson for the decision. Lilly was not thrown out of the game by the AL umpires, when the incident occurred.

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