What are all the numbers retired by the New York Yankees in their history? – Publinews – 2024-04-13 23:22:51

The New York Yankees began the 2024 Major League Baseball season with a template where there is no number from 1 to 10, since they were all removed to honor great players who occupied them at some point in the 122 years of history it has. the winningest team in any of the United States sports (27 World Series).

The pitcher of Latin blood Marcus Stroman will be only the third player in the history of the “Bombers” in using the number “0″ and from there the list jumps to shortstop Anthony Volpe’s “11″.

The Yankees also surpass any US sports team because They have retired 21 issues. This is the complete list, where most are historical baseball names, including the legend Babe Ruth:

• 1: Billy Martin. He represented “Yankee Pride” like few others, since he won four World Series as a player and one more as one of the organization’s most controversial managers.
• 2: Derek Jeter. The last great symbol of the “Bronx Bombers”. He played between 1995 and 2014, always a Yankee and won five World Series.

• 3: Babe Ruth. He is the most famous player in history. “The Great Bambino.” “The Sultan of Swat.” The Red Sox sold him for $120,000 to the Yankees and everything changed: Boston did not win a World Series in 86 years and the New York team began its long list of titles in 1923 (seven of them thanks to Babe Ruth).
• 4: Lou Gehrig. Perhaps one of the most loved and respected players in all of baseball. A great hitter. His 184 RBIs in 1931 are still an American League record. An illness shortened his career and led to his death at the age of 37. His life was immortalized in the 1942 film “Pride of the Yankees” with Gary Cooper.

• 5: Joe DiMaggio. The “Yankee Clipper”. The most complete player in the history of baseball: great hitter, skilled center fielder and very good baserunner. In 1941 he had at least one hit in 56 consecutive games.
• 6: Joe Torre. Player for the Braves, Cardinals and Mets, but stood out as manager of the Yankees between 1996 and 2007, years in which he won 10 division titles, the American League six times and the World Series four times.
• 7: Mickey Mantle. He played between 1951 and 1968, where he won the World Series seven times and the American League 10 times. In 1956 he had a perfect season winning the Triple Crown with 52 home runs, 130 RBIs and a .353 batting average.
• 8: Yogi Berra. Unparalleled character. Catcher who was in a golden era of the Yankees, since between 1947 and 1962 he won the World Series 10 times, a record never equaled.
• 8: Bill Dickey. Also catcher, considered one of the best in history. He played between 1929 and 1941. Yogi Berra wore his own number and it was retired in 1972 to honor the two players.
• 9: Roger Maris. In 1961 he was the protagonist of one of the most controversial episodes in baseball, when Maris was in the race to surpass the record of 60 home runs in a season established by Babe Ruth. As the 1961 championship was the first with 162 games, the commissioner said that the “Bambino” record would only be surpassed in the same 156 games of 1927. Maris hit 61 home runs, but in 162 games therefore his record was always marked with an infamous asterisk, until it was removed but after his death. Incredibly, Maris was never elected to the Hall of Fame.
• 10: Phil Rizzuto. Another player from those historic campaigns of the 40s and 50s. Shortstop, he stood out as a great base runner. Additionally, he was a Yankees announcer on radio and TV for 40 years, popularizing the phrase “holy cow.”
• 15: Thurman Munson. August 2, 1979 is one of the saddest days in Yankees history. That day, Munson died at the age of 32 as a result of an accident in his Cessna plane that he was piloting. Great catcher and leader of the team that in the 70s won three American Leagues and two World Series to end a long drought for the Bronx team.
• 16: Whitey Ford. Perhaps the best pitcher in Yankees history. He won six World Series and could have been two more, but in the 1951 and 1952 seasons he served in the US Army during the Korean War. In 1961 he won the Cy Young Award for the best pitcher in the American League.

• 20: Jorge Posada. Member of the last great generation of players of the “Bronx Bombers”, along with Jeter, Rivera and Pettitte. He spent his 17 seasons in the Major Leagues in the Yankees uniform and won five World Series (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009).
• 21: Paul O’Neill. He came from a championship team, like the Cincinnati Reds, and led the Yankees to the 1996 title, the first since 1978. He then added the World Series of 1998, 1999 and 2000. A warrior, great hitter and a very good right fielder.
• 23: Don Mattingly. A symbol of the Yankees and the favorite of several generations of fans. He became the only outstanding player in a time of drought for the Bronx team: in fact, he never played in the World Series. He won the American League MVP in 1985 thanks to his bat and his quality with the glove at first base.
• 32: Elston Howard. In 1955 he became the Yankees’ first African-American player, eight years after Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Dodgers. Howard was a great catcher, he won the “Golden Glove” for the position twice and was the American League MVP in 1963. He won four World Series.
• 37: Casey Stengel. He was the manager of the Yankees between 1949 and 1960, and in that glorious period for the Bronx team he won seven World Series (five of them consecutive between 1949 and 1953) and 10 American League pennants.
• 42: Jackie Robinson. To honor a great player, and also historic for being the first African-American in the Major Leagues, his number was retired in 1997 by all MLB teams.

• 42: Mariano Rivera. When the league decided to retire Jackie Robinson’s number, it made an exception for the players who were using it in 1997. One of them was a young Panamanian reliever, who the previous year had won his first World Series with the Yankees. Mariano remained active until 2013, won four more titles and retired as the best closer in history.
• 44. Reggie Jackson. Is there a better nickname than “Mr. “October”? Reggie won five World Series (three with the Athletics and two with the Yankees) and when the month arrived in which the titles were disputed, his best repertoire with the bat appeared. In Game 6 of the 1977 World Series against the Dodgers, he hit three home runs in the Bronx that allowed the Yankees to win their first title since 1962.

• 46: Andy Pettitte. Pitcher and member of the “Core Four”, along with Jeter, Posada and Rivera, which was the core of five Yankees titles (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009). He has the most strikeouts in franchise history.
• 49: Ron Guidry. “The Louisiana Lightning” had several extraordinary seasons with the Yankees, but the 1978 season entered the history books after winning 25 games as a pitcher and losing just three. He was one of the figures on the team that won the World Series that year and was also the unanimous winner of the Cy Young Award in the American League.
• 51: Bernie Williams. A complete player: he won the American League batting championship in 1998 and the “Golden Glove” four times as a right fielder. He is the Yankee with the highest number of home runs in the postseason (22) and was also a key player in four titles.

In a few more years, it will surely have to be added the number “99″ by Aaron Judge, the great player of the Yankees in the last 10 years and MVP of 2022 after that season breaking the record of 61 home runs in the American League that Roger Maris had since 1961.