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1928 New York Yankees Season
The 1928 New York Yankees season was their 26th season. The team finished with a record of 101–53, winning their sixth pennant, finishing 2.5 games ahead of the 1928 Philadelphia Athletics season, Philadelphia Athletics. New York was managed by Miller Huggins. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the 1928 World Series, World Series, they swept the 1928 St. Louis Cardinals season, St. Louis Cardinals. Pitcher Urban Shocker died in September due to complications from pneumonia. Regular season * The 1928 Yankees set a major league record by having nine players on the team who would eventually be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Hall of Fame: Earle Combs, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Leo Durocher, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Stan Coveleski. Manager Miller Huggins, team president Ed Barrow and owner Jacob Ruppert, Colonel Jacob Ruppert were also inducted. Season standings Record vs. opponents Roster Player stats Batting S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 World Series
The 1928 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1928 season. The 25th edition of the World Series, it matched the American League champion New York Yankees versus the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Yankees beat the Cardinals in four games to become the first team to do back-to-back sweeps. Babe Ruth hit .625 (10 for 16) as the Yankees outscored their opponents by a combined score of 27–10. As he had done against the Cards in the Series, Ruth hit three home runs over the right field pavilion in Sportsman's Park in Game 4, the only player to do it in two different World Series through the 2016 season. Unlike 1926, however, it occurred in the final game of a Series won by the Yanks and finished off their two consecutive World Series sweeps. Lou Gehrig also had a good Series, hitting .545 (6 for 11) with four home runs. He drove in as many runs by himself (9) as the entire Cardinal team combined. Bill McKechnie became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Dickey
William Malcolm Dickey (June 6, 1907 – November 12, 1993) was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees for 19 seasons. Dickey managed the Yankees as a player-manager in 1946 in his last season as a player. Dickey played with the Yankees from 1928 through 1943. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Dickey returned to the Yankees in 1946 as a player and manager. He retired after the 1946 season, but returned in 1949 as a coach, where he taught Yogi Berra the finer points of catching. During Dickey's playing career, the Yankees went to the World Series nine times, winning eight championships. He was named to 11 All-Star Games. As a manager and coach, he led the Yankees to another six World Series titles. Dickey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. Early life Dickey was born in Bastrop, Louisiana, on June 6, 1907. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Zachary
Jonathan Thompson Walton Zachary (c. May 7, 1896 – January 24, 1969) was a professional baseball pitcher. Career Zachary had a 19-year career in Major League Baseball that lasted from 1918 to 1936. He played for the Philadelphia A's, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees of the American League and the Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies of the National League. Zachary is well known for giving up Babe Ruth's record-setting 60th home run in 1927. Then the next year, pitching for Ruth's team, the New York Yankees, he won the third game of the World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals. Zachary went 12–0 for the 1929 Yankees, which is still the major league record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season. Zachary was a very good hitting pitcher, posting a .226 batting average Batting average is a statistic in cricket, baseball, and softball that measures the performance of batters. The development of the baseb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myles Thomas
Myles Lewis Thomas (October 22, 1897 – December 12, 1963) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was born in State College, Pennsylvania. He threw and batted right-handed, and he was also tall and 170 pounds. He was nicknamed "Duck Eye" by Babe Ruth. On April 18, at the age of 28, he made his major league debut with the New York Yankees. On June 15, , he was purchased from the Yankees by the Washington Senators. Overall, he went 23–22 with a 4.64 career ERA. As a batter, he hit a respectable (for a pitcher) .240. He had a career .955 fielding percentage. In the postseason, he had a 3.00 ERA in 2 games. Thomas played his final game on June 21, . He died in Toledo, Ohio. His body is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo. 1927: The Diary of Myles Thomas In 2016, ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Shealy
Albert Berley Shealy (May 24, 1900 – March 7, 1967), was a professional baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball, for the New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of ... and for the Chicago Cubs. External links 1900 births 1967 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from South Carolina New York Yankees players Chicago Cubs players Kinston Eagles players St. Paul Saints (AA) players Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players Newberry Wolves baseball players Nashville Vols players Reading Keystones players Albany Senators players Kansas City Blues (baseball) players Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players Fort Worth Cats players Portland Beavers players Oklahoma City Indians players Dallas Rebels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosy Ryan
Wilfred Patrick Dolan "Rosy" Ryan (March 15, 1898 – December 10, 1980) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played ten seasons in Major League Baseball between 1919 and 1933 for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, New York Yankees, and Brooklyn Dodgers. Amateur career A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, Ryan attended the College of the Holy Cross. He posted a 9–2 win–loss record as a pitcher in his freshman year, and threw the school's first no-hitter, a 4–0 victory over Dartmouth at Fitton Field in 1918. Ryan graduated from Holy Cross in 1920. Early professional career (1919–1920) Ryan went 15–8 with a 1.36 earned run average (ERA) for the Buffalo Bisons of the International League in 1919, and was called up by the New York Giants late in that season. He made his major league debut on September 7, getting the start on the mound in the second game of a doubleheader against the Boston Braves at the Polo Grounds. The game featured a pair of Baseball Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pipgras
George William Pipgras (December 20, 1899 – October 19, 1986) was an American right-handed starting pitcher and umpire in Major League Baseball. Known as "The Danish Viking", he spent most of his playing career with the New York Yankees, breaking in as a rookie in 1923. He spent the 1925 and 1926 seasons in the minor leagues, and became a starter in the rotation for the first time with the legendary team. Pipgras lead the American League in wins with a 24–13, 3.38 ERA record for the following year's 1928 repeat champions. After ending his 11-year career with the Boston Red Sox, he became an AL umpire from 1938 to 1946, and was the umpire behind the plate in one of baseball's most dramatic wins ever: on September 30, 1945, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, when Hank Greenberg hit a ninth-inning grand slam, after Pipgras suggested to Greenberg the game should be called on account of darkness. However, Greenberg convinced him ''he'' could still see the ball, so the game proceed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilcy Moore
William Wilcy "Cy" Moore (May 20, 1897 – March 29, 1963) was a professional baseball right-handed pitcher over parts of six seasons (1927–1933) with the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. He led the American League in ERA as a rookie in 1927 while playing for New York. Moore was a member of the 1927 New York Yankees, frequently referred to as Major League Baseball's greatest team of all time. He made his MLB debut on April 14 of that season and proceeded to win 19 games, with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig among his teammates. Moore was the winning pitcher in Game 4 of the 1927 World Series, pitching all nine innings for the champion Yankees against the Pittsburgh Pirates. New York won the game in the bottom of the ninth inning on a wild pitch. He also won the fourth and final game of the 1932 World Series, in which the Yankees defeated the Chicago Cubs. Primarily a relief pitcher, Moore was a member of the Yankee staff during the 1928 World Series as well, but was not needed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Johnson (baseball)
Henry Ward Johnson (May 21, 1906 – August 20, 1982) was a pitcher who played in Major League Baseball between the 1925 and 1939 seasons. Listed at , , Johnson batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Bradenton, Florida. Johnson entered the majors in 1925 with the New York Yankees, playing for them seven years (1925–26, 1928–32) before joining the Boston Red Sox (1933–35), Philadelphia Athletics (1936) and Cincinnati Reds (1939). He divided his playing time as a starter, middle reliever, and occasional closer during a career hampered by illness. His most productive years came with the Yankees, winning 14 games in 1928 and 1930 and 13 in 1931. But he developed a chronic bursitis that eventually ended his career. In a 12-season career, Johnson posted a 63–56 record with 568 strikeouts and a 4.75 ERA in 249 appearances, including 116 starts, 45 complete games, four shutouts, 11 saves and 1066 innings of work. Johnson was a good hitting pitcher in his major league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Heimach
Frederick Amos Heimach (January 27, 1901 – June 1, 1973) born in Camden, New Jersey, was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics (1920–26), Boston Red Sox (1926), New York Yankees (1928–29) and Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn Robins/Brooklyn Dodgers (1930–33). He helped the Yankees win the 1928 World Series. In 13 seasons, he had a 62–69 win–loss record, 296 games, 127 games started, 56 complete games, 5 shutouts, 104 games finished, 7 saves, 1,288⅔ innings pitched, 1,510 hits allowed, 755 runs allowed, 639 earned runs allowed, 64 home runs allowed, 360 walks allowed, 334 strikeouts, 27 hit batsmen, 14 wild pitches, 5,674 batters faced, 4 balks and a 4.46 ERA. He was a very good hitting pitcher. He compiled a .236 batting average (baseball), batting average (128-for-542) with 58 Run (baseball), runs, 3 home runs and 50 RBIs. As a member of the Philadelphia A's, in 1923 he batted .254 (30-for-118) with 11 RBI, he also played 6 games at first base and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Campbell (baseball)
Archibald Stewart "Iron Man" Campbell (October 20, 1903 – December 22, 1989) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1928 season. He also played with the Washington Senators in 1929 and the Cincinnati Reds in 1930. Campbell pitched in 40 games in parts of three seasons, chiefly as a reliever, with two wins, six losses and a 5.86 ERA. Campbell batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Maplewood, New JerseyStaff"NEW ANGEL PLAYERS NO. 3--ARCHIE CAMPBELL" ''Los Angeles Times'', April 1, 1937. Accessed May 1, 2016. "He was born in Maplewood, New Jersey, but started playing semipro baseball in Los Angeles, which is his home now." and died in Sparks, Nevada Sparks is a city in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. It was founded in 1904, incorporated on March 15, 1905, and is located just east of Reno. The 2020 U.S. Census counted 108,445 residents in the city. It is the fifth most populous city i .... References External links Major Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Coveleski
Stanley Anthony Coveleski (born Stanislaus Kowalewski, July 13, 1889 – March 20, 1984) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four American League (AL) teams between and , primarily the Cleveland Indians. The star of the Indians pitching staff, he won over 20 games each year from the epidemic-shortened 1918 season through 1921, leading the AL in shutouts twice and in strikeouts and earned run average (ERA) once each during his nine years with the club. The star of the 1920 World Series, he led the Indians to their first title with three complete-game victories, including a 3–0 shutout in the Game 7 finale. Traded to the Washington Senators after the 1924 season, he helped that club to its second AL pennant in a row with 20 victories against only 5 losses, including a 13-game winning streak, while again leading the league in ERA. Coveleski followed in the footsteps of his brother Harry as a major league pitcher. But after making his deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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