Great Yankee photos

[Jersey Yankee]

1951



Undated, but my (JY) guess is circa 1970, since Casey passed on in 1975, and Mickey looks like he's already retired (last season: 1968).

[Sierra Mist]

these pics are all great, thanx

[Jersey Yankee]

You're welcome. I hope that you also enjoy the recent additions to the Negro League thread.

[penguin4]

Thou shalt not include any photos taken after 1969 in this thread!!!

--The Grinch

Undated, but my (JY) guess is circa 1970, since Casey passed on in 1975, and Mickey looks like he's already retired (last season: 1968).

Hey Grinch -- Practice what you preach!!

(J/K -- great photo, though...)

[penguin4]

Jack Chesbro



Undated -- based on the length of the sleeves (and the size of Ruth's girth), it's likely 1932 or before.



An interesting card of Tony's, c. 1938



(They put execs on baseball cards back then??)



(Perhaps this belongs in the Boston thread)






Bill Dickey; I know not when

[penguin4]

Casey lookin' sharp



"The Ol' Perfessor" with Joe Carrieri, a former batboy....




....with Enos Slaughter....



....in Yankees offices....



....with a signed baseball from one of his former players....



.... and fixing Yogi's broken nose.

[penguin4]

More of Tony:





The Murderers' Row infield (Gehrig, Lazzeri, Koenig, and Dugan)

[penguin4]

Bob Meusel's definitely the guy on the right, and the guy on the left is either Earle Combs or Wally Pipp -- I'm not 100% sure because the caption's wrong.

[EDIT: On second thought, it's probably Combs.]



I'm guessing this is the 1941 World Series celebration, just based on the names in the caption (L to R) -- Art Fletcher, Marvin Breuer, Earle Combs, Johnny Murphy, Phil Rizzuto, Red Rolfe, Tommy Henrich, and Johnny Sturm.

[VFBundy]

Undated, but my (JY) guess is circa 1970, since Casey passed on in 1975, and Mickey looks like he's already retired (last season: 1968).

It's got to be 1974, since Mantle is holding a replica of his Hall of Fame induction plaque.

[penguin4]

"Old Timers": Speaker, Ruth, & Cobb -- "Amateur Day" in Cleveland, July 28, 1941



Frank Chance in Chicago -- it says 1943 on the picture, but he died in 1924... perhaps they mean 1913?



Chance as Yankees manager



Chance with Clark Griffith



This one's dated 1922, announcing that he'd signed on to manage Boston, but likely again in error, seeing as he only managed the Yankees 1913-14.



Chance shaking hands with Joe Humphries (who from a quick Google I THINK was a popular announcer back then).

[penguin4]

Rog holding Number 60 (while simultaneously advertizing Yoo-Hoo!)



With Dick Groat, Spring Training 1961



BEYOND PHALLIC!!! (1961 World Series Game 1)



Perry Como gives the close shave, October 1961



Rog with Japanese HR champ Shigeo Nagashima, January 1962 (doesn't say how many he hit, though)



Post-Yankees -- August 16, 1967



Roger & Family, same day



(This one's my favorite -- simply because I didn't know such a photo existed -- how awesome is this!) Spring Training, 1962

[jimmyclark]

I am not sure in DiMaggio was really close to a lot of his teammates. Maybe a couple of youngsters with attitudes like Joe Page and Billy Martin. Someone once said DiMaggio's teammates respected him, Mantle's teammates loved him.
Durcoher did become a decent hitter after leaving the Yankees and learning to hit the other way. Something he emphasized on his teams and why he had no use for Ernie Banks in the late 1960s. A pretty low person, suspended by two different commissioners, used to run crooked card games with the actor George Raft, once got a security guard to hold an abusive fans arms behinf his back while Durocher worked him over with brass knuckles. But very baseball-smart, always a great story teller.
These phots are great.Love them!! Thanks to those responsible.

[jimmyclark]

Rog holding Number 60 (while simultaneously advertizing Yoo-Hoo!)



With Dick Groat, Spring Training 1961



BEYOND PHALLIC!!! (1961 World Series Game 1)



Perry Como gives the close shave, October 1961



Rog with Japanese HR champ Shigeo Nagashima, January 1962 (doesn't say how many he hit, though)



Post-Yankees -- August 16, 1967



Roger & Family, same day



(This one's my favorite -- simply because I didn't know such a photo existed -- how awesome is this!) Spring Training, 1962

Shigeo Nagashima hit 25 HR in 1962 and 444 in his career. Nagashima was probably the most popular player in the history of Japanese baseball..winning 5 MVPs, 10 Japan Series and 13 Pennants for the Yomuri Giants. Teammate Sadaharu Oh was almost certainly the better player but in race-conscious country like Japan the half-Korean Oh was not really taken to heart as the Japanese Nagashima. Nagashima was a right handed third baseman, Oh a left handed outfielder famous for raisng his right foot when hitting like a flamingo. Many people thought Oh's hitting style to be reminscent of HOF outfielder Mel Ott.

[in MO I trust 42]

wow, what great pictures. thank you all so much for posting them. its like a look into yankees history, i love it

[Dooley Womack]

UNNNbeLIEVABLE. Thanks again, Brad!

[flymick24]

Clubhouse photo of the powerhouse Yankees taken by Life Magazine's Robert Kelly after clinching the 1961 pennant. Roger Maris (who in days would hit homers 60 and 61) is at left, reveling with Elston Howard, manager Ralph Houk, Ralph Terry and Yogi Berra. Notice the cigarettes in Maris' and Berra's hands, something that would be taboo today. What a handsome devil that Yogi was.

geez, you can actually see the patches of hair missing on maris' head... poor guy

[Jersey Yankee]

wow, what great pictures. thank you all so much for posting them. its like a look into yankees history, i love it

UNNNbeLIEVABLE. Thanks again, Brad!

I'm glad that everyone has enjoyed this thread. Mostly copy & pasting, but it was well worth it.

Here's a few more "golden oldies":





1939



1927 WS ring.

[penguin4]

I thought they gave out watches back then. Or at least they did in 1928 -- maybe they mixed it up (or did both)?

BTW, from what year is that team photo? Based on who's in it, I can guestimate somewhere between 1926 and 1929, but do you know specifically?

[Jersey Yankee]

I'll ask around as to when the WS rings & watches began their distributions.

I'm not sure which team photo. I'll ask around, then get back to you.

[thecaptain]

1951



Undated, but my (JY) guess is circa 1970, since Casey passed on in 1975, and Mickey looks like he's already retired (last season: 1968).

Mickey and Whitey both enter in 1974.

[Casey37]

Wow...my man Casey might have not been too color coordinated, but he sure as hell got the job done!

[thecaptain]

Wow...my man Casey might have not been too color coordinated, but he sure as hell got the job done!

must have been the style . look at the jacket on the guy on the far right

[YankS1302]

Those are some incredible photos. Whats there not to like about Basball, especially the Yankees? I would of loved to grow up living around Yankee stadium during this era.

I am starting to collect Yankee games on DVD. I have very few on VHS that I am converting.
I tend to stay up all hrs. of the night to watch them. There is something about that stadium when the Yanks do something awesome and it just erupes in there.
Does anyone else have a collection.

[penguin4]

Here's a bunch on the near-great Frank Crosetti.

[Jersey Yankee]

Yankee left fielder Gene Woodling regaining third base after Joe DiMaggio had gone out on a short fly ball during the second game of the 1950 world series played at Philadelphia on Oct. 5. The New York Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 2 to 1 in ten innings.



Micky Mantle of the New York Yankees watching the ball sail over the head of third baseman Bobby Morgan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The ball was relayed by the shortstop after Mantle tripled to center field in the fourth game of the 1952 world series. The Yankees won the game 2-0, and took the series, four games to three.