and ( 4 ) catcher Johnny Blanchard of the New York Yankees matched a record with home runs in four successive times at bat, two of them as a pinch-hitter.

This, of course, is baseball's most remarkable mark: The 60 home runs hit in 1927 by the incorrigible epicure, the incredible athlete, George Herman ( Babe ) Ruth of the Yankees.

The Bronx is the home of the New York Yankees, one of the leading baseball franchises.

The never – landmarked Yankee Stadium, the " House that Ruth Built " and home to the New York Yankees since 1923, has been replaced with a similar-looking ballpark just across 161st Street.

He subsequently became one of the league's most prolific hitters and with his home run hitting prowess, he helped the Yankees win seven pennants and four World Series titles.

Speaker and Coveleski were aging and the Yankees were rising with a new weapon: Babe Ruth and the home run.

* 1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the " Pine Tar Incident ".

The Royals vanquished the Yankees in a three-game sweep punctuated by a George Brett home run off of Yankees ' star relief pitcher Goose Gossage.

Also, Don Mattingly, one of the New York Yankees baseball players is seen hitting a home run.

The Yankees ' transfer of the Richmond club to Toledo in 1965 restored professional baseball to Toledo ( or to be technical, Maumee-the Hens played their home games in the Toledo suburb until the 2002 opening of Toledo's downtown ballpark, Fifth Third Field ).

Texas then brought home their first American League Pennant after beating the New York Yankees in six games.

Though he had offers from the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees while he was still in high school, his mother thought he was too young to leave home, so he signed up with the local minor league club, the San Diego Padres.

On October 2, against the Yankees, Williams hit his 222nd career home run, tying Foxx for the Red Sox all-time record.

** Reggie Jackson blasts 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

* October 1 – Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth.

* October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1960 World Series of baseball in Game 7, on a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski for a 10 – 9 victory over the New York Yankees.

It was the home ballpark of the New York Yankees, one of the city's Major League Baseball ( MLB ) franchises, from 1923 to 1973 and from 1976 to 2008.

The stadium hosted 6, 581 Yankees regular season home games during its 85-year history.

This exacerbated Giants owner Charles Stoneham's resentment of the Yankees and precipitated his insistence that the Yankees find another place to play their home games.

Yankee Stadium officially opened on Wednesday, April 18, 1923, with the Yankees ' first home game.

The Yankees went on to defeat Ruth's former team, the Boston Red Sox, by a score of 4 – 1, with Ruth hitting a three-run home run into the right-field stands.

However, this would have required the Yankees to play their home games at Shea Stadium in Queens, the regular home of the New York Mets.

The team's The team's inaugural season home opener as the London Tigers was on Friday, April 7, 1989, against the Albany-Colonie Yankees.

The Yankees home opener was on June 20, 1999, facing the Hudson Valley Renegades in front of 4, 547 fans on the campus of the College of Staten Island.

He debuted at Yankee Stadium on April 17, 1951 with the Yankees ' home opener, a 5-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.

At age 95 health issues began to take their toll: In 2006 Sheppard missed his first Yankees home opener since 1951 after injuring his hip.

* While 50, 245 fans showed up for the New York Yankees ' home opener, it was the smallest opening day crowd at Yankee Stadium since 1990.

In April 2005, at Fenway Park, Red Sox owners John Henry and Tom Werner showed their respect for Villamán and his worldwide audience by delivering him a diamond-encrusted World Series championship ring during his broadcast of home opener against the New York Yankees.

Huckaby was involved in a collision with shortstop, Derek Jeter in the 2003 season opener against the New York Yankees.

The series opener saw the Yankees throw their ace, Ron Guidry, against the Royals ' Larry Gura.

Though the Yankees won the Series opener, it is never made clear who won the Series overall.

In the 1961 World Series, won by the New York Yankees in five games, Freese hit only 1-of-16, including being the victim of one of two spectacular defensive plays by third-base counterpart Clete Boyer in the Series opener.

Although the Tigers have been the predominant MLB parent of the IL Mud Hens ( 1967 – 73 and since 1987 ), the team has also been affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1974 – 75 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1976 – 77 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1978 – 86 ) and the Yankees ( 1965 – 66 ).

He played with the Cincinnati Reds from 1970 – 1976 and with the New York Yankees from 1976 – 1978.

* Bucky Dent ( born 1951 ), New York Yankees player, best known for home run that beat the Boston Red Sox on October 2, 1978, in a one-game tiebreaker to get to the playoffs.

For the next 19 years, the team mirrored the name of its parent major league club, being known through the years as the Tacoma Giants ( 1960 – 1965 ), Tacoma Cubs ( 1966 – 1971 ), Tacoma Twins ( 1972 – 1977 ), and Tacoma Yankees ( 1978 ).

* In 1978, the Red Sox held a 14-game lead in the American League East over the Yankees on July 18.

In addition to the Yankees ( 1975 ), he also played for the Chicago White Sox ( 1978 ), Texas Rangers ( 1978 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1979 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1980 ), and Chicago Cubs ( 1981 ).

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

He made his debut in 1978, managing one game with the Yankees between Billy Martin's and Bob Lemon's first tours as skipper in the Bronx.

The Yankees and Royals faced each other for the third consecutive time in the 1978 American League Championship Series.

He earned two World Series rings as the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees in and, and was voted the World Series MVP in 1978.

Dent is widely remembered for hitting a three-run homer that gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the 1978 AL East division playoff game against the Boston Red Sox.

Dent batted. 417 in the 1978 World Series, earning Series Most Valuable Player honors as the Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, four games to two.

The next year he returned to the Yankees, where he served as first-base coach from 1969 – 1979, including World Series champions in 1977 and 1978 and AL champions in ; he was the first black coach in the American League.

In 1978, he was fired as manager of the White Sox and one month later named Yankees manager and led the team to a championship, the first American League manager placed mid-season to win a World Series in the same season.

Yankees manager Billy Martin resigned on July 24, 1978, and team president Al Rosen called Lemon to offer him the vacant position and the next day he was announced as the new manager.

Five days after the Martin – Lemon changeover, the Yankees divulged at their 1978 Old Timers ' Day that Lemon would be moved in 1980 to general manager, and that Martin himself would then return as field manager.

Steinbrenner named Lemon the team's field manager a second time on September 6, 1981, the sixth Yankees ' manager change since 1978.

Joseph Lowell Gordon ( February 18, 1915 – April 14, 1978 ), nicknamed " Flash " in reference to the comic-book character Flash Gordon, was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians from 1938 to 1950.

On October 10, George Brett of the Royals hit a tide-turning three-run homer off Gossage into Yankee Stadium's right-field upper deck to lead the Royals to a three-game sweep in the AL Championship Series, after the Yankees had defeated the Royals in three consecutive ALCS from 1976 to 1978.

With the Yankees, Lyle was a member of the World Series champions in 1977 and 1978.

Lyle co-authored, with Peter Golenbock, The Bronx Zoo, a 1979 tell-all book which chronicled the dissension within the Yankees in its World Series Championship seasons of 1977 and 1978.

He played a major role in the Yankees capturing three straight pennants from 1976 to 1978 and winning the World Series in the last two of those years.

But despite the fact Lyle had won the 1977 Cy Young Award, the Yankees signed Goose Gossage as a free agent during the 1977 off-season, and Gossage followed with an outstanding 1978 season which made Lyle expendable.