@miles_commodore It’s a great list. I would have included “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” but I’d be hard pressed to say what to knock off to make room for it.
David Cone retires all twenty seven Montreal Expos at Yankee Stadium on July 18, 1999, Yogi Berra Day.
Don Larsen had thrown the ceremonial first pitch to Berra a few hours earlier, then Cone went out and did the thing Larsen did in 1956.
Final 6 to 0, the sixteenth perfect game in major league history, finished in two hours and 16 minutes.
“John and I were very equal. He was the guy, when I was having trouble with Kansas City - it didn’t come off on the first rehearsal - who said ‘Come on man, you can do it better than this, get up there!’ We were equally raucous and equally balladeering actually.” - Paul McCartney
Mattingly had never hit a grand slam before 1987 and never hit another afterward.
He packed all six into that one season, setting an MLB record that Travis Hafner later matched.
"I voted for Thurman Munson for the Hall of Fame even though his major-league career was barely more than the minimum 10 seasons.
Thurman was an outstanding player and greatest force in returning the New York Yankees to a pennant after 11 years in the doldrums."
Steve Jacobson.
In my HOF!!!
"I voted for Thurman Munson for the Hall of Fame even though his major-league career was barely more than the minimum 10 seasons.
Thurman was an outstanding player and greatest force in returning the New York Yankees to a pennant after 11 years in the doldrums."
Steve Jacobson.
In my HOF!!!
@careym74 That’s my theory. He doesn’t want to play in the game and have people see him not at his best. But a lot of the Old Timers don’t play in the game. He could at least show up and tip his cap.
“It was perhaps the most beautiful tribute I’ve ever seen…it just knocked me out.”
- Diana Munson to @M_Marakovits on Austin Wells' paying tribute to Thurman with his gear earlier this month. #YANKSonYES