The 300th win came on his fourth try ; the Yankee bullpen had blown his chance of a win in his previous two attempts.

On June 12, 1930, at Yankee Stadium, in a fight billed as the ' Battle of the Continents ,' Schmeling, known as a slow starter, fell slightly behind on points going into the fourth round.

The game report in the New York Times states, " Hoyt gave a remarkable performance of his pitching skill, and from the fourth inning to the thirteenth he did not allow a hit and not a Yankee runner reached first base.

In the 1956 Series against Brooklyn he played only in Game 7, but his solo home run off Newcombe in the fourth inning was one of four Yankee HRs in the 9-0 victory.

* Characters breaking the fourth wall by seeing and reacting to words in the opening credits, as well as reacting to the previously mentioned " Yankee Doodle " music during Oliver's speeches.

The call further incensed the Yankee fans, already irate over the home run call in the fourth.

Ron Cey drove in all the Dodgers ' runs with an RBI single in the fourth and a three-run homer in the sixth off Yankee starter Catfish Hunter.

Phil Rizzuto led off the Yankee fourth with a double and Johnny Mize singled him home for a 1 – 0 lead.

With the famous facade, the short right field porch and Monument Park, Yankee Stadium has been home to many of baseball's greatest players including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez.

* New York Yankee Hall of Famers Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto owned a bowling alley in Clifton called " Rizzuto-Berra Bowling Lanes.

On September 21, 2008 Ford and Yogi Berra were guests of the broadcast team for the final game played at Yankee Stadium.

He played with the Yankees in 1946 and 1947, where he roomed with Yankee catcher Yogi Berra.

The addition was to house the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, which features various baseball memorabilia from Berra's playing days and a reconstruction of the original scoreboard from Yankee Stadium among various other things.

" Each living Yankee previously so honored was on hand for the ceremony: Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson and Don Mattingly.

Yogi vowed not to visit Yankee Stadium and not to participate in any Yankee function as long as George Steinbrenner was still the owner of the Yankees.

" During the 1999 season, Steinbrenner declared a Yogi Berra Day to honor him, to the thrill of Yankee fans everywhere.

A famous apocryphal story that has made the rounds for years in baseball circles concerns the time when Brown's road roommate was star Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, who had little formal education.

Yogi would win the pennant after a summer-long struggle with the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox, but Houk and the Yankee ownership quickly became disenchanted with Berra's work and in mid-season they made up their mind to fire him.

Yankee manager Yogi Berra thought the sad cowboy style mixed with a children's nursery rhyme was mocking the team.

However, the Yankees closed out the series at Yankee Stadium, and the Mariners have not reached the playoffs since.

With hits such as " Doncella ", " Bandida ", and " Yo Voy " ( featuring Daddy Yankee ), the album reached gold certification.

He won 51 of the events, abandoned one race and lost two handicap races along with his final event ; a half-mile race at the Yankee Stadium, where he finished second to American track star Alan Helffrich.

A seventh inning lead-off double by Seattle's Al Martin was all that prevented Clemens from throwing just the second no-hitter in postseason history ( Yankee Don Larsen threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series ).

In 2009, it gave up 149 home runs, the most in the National League and second in the majors behind only the new Yankee Stadium, but but has been neutral since, with a. 997 park factor in 2011.

Two days later, his first major league home run was the second of three consecutive home runs hit by the Yankees off Lew Krausse in a 5 – 1 Yankee victory over the A's.

After an inconclusive year in pinstripes, New York fans hoped that Johnson would return to his dominant style in his second Yankee season.

McDowell spent one rocky season in New York with the Yankees and put up decent numbers, but was perhaps best known for giving the finger to the fans at Yankee Stadium after being booed off the field after getting bombed by the White Sox on July 18, 1995 in the second game of a doubleheader.

In 2003, the 1975 Fania release Live at Yankee Stadium was included in the second set of 50 recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry.

In Game 6, he threw Andy Pafko out at the plate in the second inning, and singled and scored with two out in the tenth inning for a 4-2 Yankee lead ; the run proved decisive, as the Braves came back to score once in the bottom of the frame.

Wearing a Yankee cap, Gomez became the second Hispanic player ( of Hispanic descent ) to be inducted.

On the last day of the Tigers ' season at Yankee Stadium, Fielder hit his 50th and 51st home runs to become the 11th player in ML history – and only the second in the previous 25 years – to reach the 50-HR plateau.

That game — and thus the Series — ended with Yankee second baseman Bobby Richardson catching Willie McCovey's line drive with Willie Mays on second and Matty Alou on third ; had the ball been hit a foot or so to either side, Richardson could not have caught it and San Francisco would have scored two runs and won the Series.

Bradley's team finished second in its division in its first year, playing at Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees baseball team.

However, Dobson anchored the Yankees ' pitching staff in the second half of the season, finishing with a 19-15 record and a 3. 07 ERA, the best numbers that year for a Yankee pitcher.

It is the second busiest station in the Bronx ( 161st Street – Yankee Stadium has more riders ), 50th overall, with 7, 232, 070 passengers as of 2011.

For the second straight night, however, the Yankee bullpen couldn't keep the lead.

The most famous fight of Maxim's career was on June 25, 1952, when he made his second defense of his light heavyweight crown, against Sugar Ray Robinson at Yankee Stadium.

Yankee manager Joe Torre pulled Pettitte from the game in favor of closer John Wetteland after Fred McGriff grounded out to second.

Yankee backup shortstop Jim Mason entered the game as a defensive replacement in the fifth inning, and in the seventh inning hit a solo homer, thus becoming the first player to hit a home run in his only World Series at-bat ( the second being Geoff Blum ).

He was recalled a second time on June 11 and reported to Yankee Stadium to play against the New York Yankees.

In the top of the fifth, the Cubs drew first blood when Stan Hack doubled, moved to third on an error by Yankee second baseman Joe Gordon, and scored on Joe Marty's forceout of Phil Cavarretta.

Gene Woodling drove in Jerry Coleman for a Yankee run in the second, and Richie Ashburn tallied Mike Goliat in the fifth, forcing a 1 – 1 tie which held up through nine full innings.

However, Yankee second baseman Billy Martin — who made a game-saving catch in Game 7 of the 1952 World Series — again ruined the Dodgers ' dreams of a championship.

Notably, the first home run came in his first at bat as a Yankee and the second secured Mike Mussina's 200th career win.