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At the heart of baseball is great pitching, the most indispensable part of any team.
At the heart of baseball’s greatest dynasty was Whitey Ford, who won a higher percentage of his decisions than any other modern pitcher.
Since his Hall of Fame election in 1974 following his 16-year big league career, Ford became the embodiment of the New York Yankees team that was baseball for the postwar generation.
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Center Fielder
Center Fielder
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Joe DiMaggio was a cultural icon.
He married Hollywood starlets Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Arnold and he was immortalized in Paul Simon’s hit song Mrs. Robinson; to a generation he was the face of Mister Coffee, and he was regarded as one of the greatest players who ever played the game.
He was an American hero.
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Executive
Executive
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The greatest sports dynasty in American history began with a second-division team in the country’s premier city.
Jacob Ruppert changed all that when he bought the New York Yankees in 1915. Baseball has never been the same.
“For $450,000, we got an orphan ballclub,” said Ruppert, who purchased the team with Tillinghast Huston. “(The club was) without a home of its own, without players of outstanding ability, without prestige.”
Within a decade, Ruppert had built Yankee Stadium, acquired Babe Ruth and won the first of the franchise’s World Series titles.
Catcher
Catcher
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“Bill Dickey is the best (catcher) I ever saw… He was as good as anyone behind the plate, and better with the bat. There are others I’d include right behind Dickey, but he was the best all-around catcher of them all. I believe I could have won 35 games if Bill Dickey was my catcher.” – Bob Feller
In 1928, Bill Dickey was claimed on waivers from the Class D Jackson, Miss., team. Yankees scout Johnny Nee thought so highly of Dickey that he told Yankee GM Ed Barrow: “I will quit scouting if this boy does not make good”.
Pitcher
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A 20-win season remains the standard for big league pitchers.
But in 1904, Jack Chesbro doubled that number by himself when he won a modern era record 41 games during one of the finest seasons of any pitcher in the history of the game. It was the crowning season of a pitcher whose career numbers added up to a place in Cooperstown.
Center Fielder
Center Fielder
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Though Earle Combs may have been overshadowed by more celebrated teammates Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, the center fielder and lead-off hitter on some of the most successful Yankees teams of the 1920s and ‘30s was held in high regard by those in the game.
“He was a table-setter for Ruth and Gehrig,” said fellow Hall of Fame player Joe Cronin. “He was always on base, it seemed, when they’d hit a homer.
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Catcher
Catcher
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Yogi Berra is a cultural icon whose fame transcended the baseball diamond. “Yogi-isms” such as “it ain’t over till its over” and "a nickel ain't worth a dime anymore” have found their way into the vernacular.
People think of Yogi as funny, but as his manager Casey Stengel once put it: "They say he's funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?”
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Executive
Executive
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Tony Lazzeri and Joe DiMaggio. Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez.
From the 1920s through the 1940s, these Hall of Fame names became synonymous with dominant dynasties for the New York Yankees.
But there was another common link between these players; the man who put all the pieces together: Ed Barrow.
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Center Fielder
Center Fielder
Whitey Ford called him as “a superstar who never acted like one. He was a humble man who was kind and friendly to all his teammates, even the rawest rookie. He was idolized by all the other players.”
Mickey Mantle was an iconic baseball player with immense talent. His drive and love for the game pushed him past injuries and into the record books.
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One of the great innovators in baseball history, Larry MacPhail introduced such standards as night baseball, airplane travel, pension plans and batting helmets. He was also a flamboyant-yet-brilliant executive who significantly improved the fortunes of three separate major league franchises.
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