Top 100 Yankees, No. 23: Lefty Gomez - Pinstripe Alley
A full life lived — from world traveler to World Series Champion.
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Top 100 Yankees, No. 26: Charlie Keller - Pinstripe Alley
"King Kong" was a force in the Yankees lineup for several World Series championship teams in the 1930s and ‘40s.
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Top 100 Yankees: No. 34 Joe Gordon - Pinstripe Alley
One of the game’s great slugging second baseman played his prime years in pinstripes.
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Top 100 Yankees, No. 38: Bob Shawkey - Pinstripe Alley
The first starting pitcher at Yankee Stadium earns his spot on the Top 100.
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Top 100 Yankees: No. 54 Wally Pipp - Pinstripe Alley
Forever remembered for a day when he didn’t play, Pipp was an excellent player in his own right.
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Top 100 Yankees, No. 58: Snuffy Stirnweiss
In the early 1940s, Stirnweiss put together two of the most underrated seasons in franchise history.
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Tom Courtney, sprinter who lunged to grab Olympic gold, dies at 90
Tom Courtney, a Fordham University graduate who with a homestretch surge and a lunge at the tape won a furious 800-meter run by inches in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, capturing the gold medal for the United States, died Tuesday at an assisted living facility in Naples, Florida. He was 90.
Source: texarkanagazette.com
Tom Courtney, runner who took Olympic gold by inches, dies at 90
Mr. Courtney captured the gold in a furious 800-meter run by inches in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
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Yogi Berra - Known for His Odd Witticisms Such As 'It ain't over till its over' | Larry Jacob
From the blog of Larry Jacob at The Times of Israel
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The Negro League Hinchcliffe Stadium Has Been Saved
Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey, one of the few remaining Negro League ballparks from the era of segregated baseball, has been restored and will reopen as a minor-league and school field in May.
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