He managed the 1, 000th victory of his major-league career in a 7 – 1 triumph at Yankee Stadium on May 1, 2012.

Mark Twain made Merlin the villain in his 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Following what was becoming familiar annual speculation, Clemens unexpectedly appeared in the owner's box at Yankee Stadium on May 6,, during the seventh-inning stretch in a game against the Seattle Mariners, and made a brief statement: " Thank y'all.

Williams made his major league debut against the New York Yankees on April 20, going 1-for-4 against Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing.

Among the films the studio made during the war were Casablanca, Now, Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( all 1942 ), This Is the Army, and Mission to Moscow ( both 1943 ), the latter became controversial a few years afterwards.

In 1758, British General James Wolfe made the earliest recorded use of the word Yankee to refer to people from what was to become the US, referring to the New England soldiers under his command as Yankees: " I can afford you two companies of Yankees, and the more because they are better for ranging and scouting than either work or vigilance.

" By the time of Jackson's election to the Hall of Fame, Steinbrenner had begun to say that letting him go was the biggest mistake he has made as Yankee owner.

A year later, at Lou Gehrig Day at Yankee Stadium, an older Billy ( David Holt ) finds Gehrig and shows him that he has made a full recovery, inspired by his hero's example and the two-homer fulfilled promise.

After the fall of Atlanta, a detachment of Sherman's cavalry was sent to raid the county ; but the Confederate Home Guard, made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Yankee raiders at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town.

The term originated as a reference to the sound made by some spectators in Yankee Stadium, located in Bronx, New York City, New York.

While the trades were not seen as particularly one-sided at the time, a turn of luck made them look like Yankee heists.

* Emden ( 1911 ), schooner, renamed Duhnen, then Brigantine Yankee ; made four circumnavigations

In his only full minor league season, he batted. 301 with six home runs and 37 runs batted in for the Binghamton Triplets in their final season (), and made his first appearance in Yankee Stadium in August 1968, when the Triplets came to play an exhibition game against the Yankees.

Some historians claim that Joe DiMaggio's record 56-game hitting streak in 1941 was made possible by several generous rulings at Yankee Stadium.

The announcement, made by public-address announcer Bob Sheppard after the Old Timers had been announced, was accompanied by Martin's dramatic entrance from the Yankee dugout and a long standing ovation from fans.

Team Yankee was Coyle's first novel, and its success made Coyle a prominent writer in the field of military fiction.

On 26 March 1939 Pan American made its first trial transatlantic flight from Baltimore, Maryland, to Foynes, Ireland, using a Boeing 314 ( named Yankee Clipper by PanAm ) with a scheduled flight time of about 29 hours.

According to legend, on a road trip that the A's made to New York, a Yankee hitter lofted a long fly ball to left field which, in the cavernous left field of Yankee Stadium, became a routine out.

Leiter made his major league debut as the starting pitcher for the Yankees on September 15, 1987, earning the win in a Yankees 4 – 3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium.

Pan American Airways ' Yankee Clipper, a Boeing 314, made its first flight across the mid-Atlantic on March 26, 1939.

Then, he was promoted to the Blue Jays and made his debut on September 20, 2004 at Yankee Stadium.

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.

Among the war films Warner made during the duration of the war were Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, This Is the Army, and the controversial film Mission to Moscow.

Yankee and Irish laborers were hired to construct the railroad, which was made especially difficult and because the Directors wanted to make the road using the best techniques then known.

Ralph Houk, successor to Casey Stengel at the Yankee helm, plans to bring the entire New York squad here from St. Petersburg, including Joe Dimaggio and large crowds are anticipated for both weekend games.

* " Skip to My Lou ", Traditional, with section sung to the tunes of " Yankee Doodle " arranged by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944

* " Elston and Me: The Story of the first Black Yankee ( 2001 ), By Arlene Howard with Ralph Wimbish.

An episode hosted by Ralph Nader on January 15, 1977 depicts Carter as a die-hard Confederate general, using his status as president-elect to take over the nation and declaring " Finally, the flagrant rape of the Confederacy by the Yankee war dogs is gonna be avenged ...".

With no outs and 2 on in the 5th inning ‚ Yankee Ping Bodie fell for the hidden ball trick applied by Tigers ' second baseman Ralph Young .. Ehmke did have problems with his control during his tenure with the Tigers, leading the American League in 1920-1923, 1925 and 1927 for hitting batters.

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.

After Berra's seven-game loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1964 World Series, Houk sacked the Yankee legend.

Houk was eventually succeeded as general manager by Lee MacPhail and then began a second, and far less successful, term as Yankee manager, finishing the 1966 season.

After Houk left the Yankee organization, he became the manager of the rebuilding Detroit Tigers.

On June 13, 2003, pitching against the St. Louis Cardinals in Yankee Stadium, Clemens recorded his 300th career win and 4, 000th career strikeout, the only player in history to record both milestones in the same game.

The teams have only met twice in the regular season with the first meeting occurring in 2002 at the old Yankee Stadium.

A study of 65 predominantly Yankee counties showed that they voted only 40 % for the Whigs in 1848 and 1852, but became 61 – 65 % Republican in presidential elections of 1856 through 1864.

Following an unsuccessful attempt to save Gate 2 ( the only portion of the original Yankee Stadium that mostly remained unaltered after the venue's renovation ), demolition of the outer walls of the stadium began on March 29.

Mantle twice hit balls off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player ( along with Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, though Gibson's home run has never been conclusively verified ) to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game.

Wells attended the same San Diego high school, Point Loma High School, as Don Larsen, whose perfect game for the Yankees in the 1956 World Series is the only perfect game ever thrown in postseason play, and was until then the only perfect game thrown by a Yankee.

Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert was a personal friend, as well as the only owner Frazee could deal with after the Black Sox Scandal left the White Sox tarnished.

Among the patriotic anthems sung during the American Revolutionary War, only Yankee Doodle was more popular than William Billings's Chester.

On October 17, following a ceremony in which Burgoyne gave his sword to Gates, only to have it returned, Burgoyne's army ( approaching 6, 000 strong ) marched out to surrender their arms while the American musicians played " Yankee Doodle ".

* June 13 – New York Yankee Roger Clemens becomes the 21st pitcher in history to win 300 games and only the 3rd pitcher to record 4, 000 career strikeouts as he defeats the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2.

Following the all-star game at Yankee Stadium in 2008 ( the stadium's final season ), the stadium joined Cleveland's old Cleveland Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium prior to its demolition, as the only stadiums to host four Major League Baseball All-Star Games.

Latin Americans ( who are the most affected by this use of American ) also have yanqui ( Yankee ) and the euphemism norteamericano / norte-americano " North American ", which technically includes the USA, Mexico and Canada, but is frequently used in Spanish and Portuguese to refer to the United States only.

It would be his first and only pitching appearance in Yankee Stadium, having spent the majority of his career in the National League before the inception of interleague play.

However, old Yankee Stadium had three tiers whereas Tiger Stadium had only two.

Since opening in 1992, Oriole Park has hosted the third-most number of fans in Major League Baseball, exceeded only by Dodger Stadium and the first Yankee Stadium.

* 1889 – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain comments on how commoners in Medieval Britain worshiped nobility and title without question, for the sake only of a meaningless title: "... and the best of English commoners was still content to see his inferiors impudently continuing to hold a number of positions, such as lordships and the throne, to which the grotesque laws of his country did not allow him to aspire ; in fact, he was even able to persuade himself that he was proud of it.

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.

A perennial All-Star, Munson is the only Yankee ever to win both the Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards.

He was the first catcher to accomplish the feat in three consecutive years since Yankee Hall of Famer Bill Dickey's four straight seasons from-1939, matched only by Mike Piazza since (–).

In the 1997 World Series, the Marlins played before crowds of over 67, 000 fans — the highest postseason attendance figures in MLB history, only exceeded by Cleveland Stadium, home of the Cleveland Indians during the 1948 World Series, old Yankee Stadium prior to its mid 1970s renovation, and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the temporary home of the Los Angeles Dodgers ( before Dodger Stadium was opened ) in the 1959 World Series.

The Yankees remain the only team to ever sweep the World Series in consecutive years ; the Yankee teams of 1938 – 1939 and 1998 – 1999 repeated the feat.

Since his retirement after the 2001 World Series, his number 21 has only been worn once, when relief pitcher LaTroy Hawkins briefly wore the number to start the 2008 season but, on April 16, 2008, Hawkins switched to number 22 in response to the criticism he received by many Yankee fans, all the more suggesting that number 21 may one day be retired for O ' Neill.