The Mud Hens have played in the International League since 1965, when the New York Yankees ' AAA club, the Richmond Virginians, transferred there.

In the 19th century, Americans in the southern United States employed the word in reference to Americans from the northern United States ( though not to recent immigrants from Europe ; thus a visitor to Richmond, Virginia, in 1818 commented, " The enterprising people are mostly strangers ; Scots, Irish, and especially New England men, or Yankees, as they are called ").

Their predecessor team, the Richmond Virginians, a New York Yankees International League franchise from 1954 through 1964, played in only one championship.

In 2001, a small section of the eastern most portion of the North Shore Branch ( a few hundred feet ) was reopened to provide passenger service to the new Richmond County Bank Ballpark, home of the Staten Island Yankees minor-league baseball team ; however, this service was discontinued in 2009.

Lopat managed the Triple-A Richmond Virginians for the Yankees in the late 1950s, and in served one season as the Yankees ' pitching coach before holding the same post with the Minnesota Twins in and the Kansas City Athletics in.

The Richmond County Bank Ballpark, the home of the Staten Island Yankees, a minor league farm club of the New York Yankees opened in 2001.

MCU Park and the Staten Island Yankees ' Richmond County Bank Ballpark were paid for with public money, part of a deal that involved both the Mets and Yankees.

Nicknamed the " Baby Bombers ," the Yankees are a Short-Season A classification affiliate of the New York Yankees and play in the New York-Penn League at Richmond County Bank Ballpark along the waterfront in St. George.

The Staten Island Yankees played their first two seasons at College of Staten Island Baseball Complex before moving into the Richmond County Bank Ballpark for the 2001 season.

In 2007, the SWB Yankees finished with a record of 84 – 59 and captured the IL North Division title for the fourth time in team history before losing to Richmond in the semi finals.

The Triplets relocated to Manchester, New Hampshire following the 1969 season to become the Manchester Yankees and are now based in Richmond, Virginia as the Richmond Flying Squirrels.

Bob Sheppard-Yankee Stadium Public Address Announcer " The Voice of the Yankees " from 1951-2009 was born and raised in Richmond Hill.

" Giuliani had already been instrumental in the construction of taxpayer-funded minor league baseball facilities MCU Park for the Mets ' minor league Brooklyn Cyclones and Richmond County Bank Ballpark for the Staten Island Yankees.

After starting the 1960 season with the A's, Terwilliger was unofficially traded to the New York Yankees, a transaction that was common at the time between the two teams when the Yankees were accused of using the A's as a major league farm club and the two teams often seemed to have mutual rights to each others players, and played the rest of the season at AAA Richmond Virginians before retiring as a full-time player.

The Ballpark at St. George is more commonly referred to as Staten Island Yankees Stadium instead of its much longer name, whose naming rights were given to Richmond County Savings Bank.

Richmond County Bank Ballpark was part of a deal with both the Yankees and New York Mets, brokered by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

The Colts finished 0 – 8 – 1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season and earned the team the right to select Stanford quarterback John Elway with the first overall pick, but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee of the New York Yankees baseball club, forced a trade to Denver.

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.

Similarly, a book about the ball club echoes the title of the Holmes film: The Magnificent Yankees.

During his thirteen years with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships.

Scout Bill Essick of the New York Yankees was convinced that DiMaggio could overcome his knee injury and pestered the club to give DiMaggio another look.

Topping responded by buying into the baseball Yankees and transferring his club to the AAFC.

* Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, or Red Barons, the former nickname of the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees baseball club

In that episode, ESPN aired live coverage of Roger Clemens's second start for the New York Yankees ' minor league club in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Ford was arguably the greatest Yankees pitcher of all time, retiring with more wins ( 236 ), more innings ( 3, 171 ), more strikeouts ( 1, 956 ), and more shutouts ( 45 ) than anyone in club history.

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 ).

After being traded to the New York Yankees after the 1974 season, Bonds became one of the sport's most-traveled figures, playing for seven more teams over seven seasons, with more than one season for only the California Angels ( 1976 – 77 ); in 1977 he tied the Angels club record for home runs in a season ( 37 ).

The Yankees announced on October 27 that the club had declined to exercise their option for Wood for 2011.

His clients included Donald Trump, Mafia figures Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, and John Gotti, Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Texas financier and philanthropist Shearn Moody, Jr. and the New York Yankees baseball club.

Many Yankees players had complained about Perry during his stints with the Rangers, and the club even used a special camera team to monitor his movements during one of his starts at Yankee Stadium.

It was while pitching for the Yankees that Niekro gained entry into the 300 win club with a shutout win over the Toronto Blue Jays on October 6, 1985.

" He also came to be known for his cap flying off his head at the completion of his delivery to the plate, as well as for his uniform number 56, a number usually assigned in spring training to players designated for the minor leagues ( Bouton later explained that he had been assigned the number in 1962 when he was promoted to the Yankees, and wanted to keep it as a reminder of how close he had come to not making the ball club.

In 1976, after losing Hunter to free agency, Finley started dismantling his club, attempting to sell Rudi and Fingers to the Red Sox and Blue to the Yankees.

He served the Yankees as manager of the big-league club for portions of two seasons, compiling an 18-22 record in and an 18 – 31 record in.

Hunter starred in the 1958 musical film Damn Yankees, in which he played Joe Hardy of Washington D. C's American League baseball club.

Joe McCarthy, the manager of the Colonels and later his manager with the Yankees, knew what Combs could do and told him, " Look, if I didn't think you belonged in centerfield on this club, I wouldn't put you there.

" After being assigned to the Yankees AA-level club, the Oakland Oaks, in the Pacific Coast League, Gordon proceeded to put up solid numbers in his first season in professional baseball, hitting. 300 while spending the majority of time in the field at shortstop.

With Gordon-ally Joe McCarthy resigning from the Yankees club in May 1946 and following his worst season in baseball, Gordon was in trouble.

In 1966, he began the season with the Yankees, but was sent down to Toledo of the International League.

They also scoured the minor leagues for selections in the Rule 5 draft ( Paul Blair from the Mets in 1962, Moe Drabowsky from the Cardinals in 1965 ) and claims off waivers ( Curt Blefary, 1965 AL Rookie of the Year, from the Yankees in 1963 ).

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 almost his entire 19-year baseball career ( 1946 – 1965 ) for the New York Yankees.

Injuries slowed Mantle and the Yankees during the 1965 season, and they finished in 6th, 25 games behind the Minnesota Twins.

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 ).

* The first home run in the Astrodome was hit by Mickey Mantle off of pitcher Turk Farrell on April 9, 1965 in an exhibition game between the Astros and Yankees.

Following his playing career Dean became a well-known radio and television sportscaster, calling baseball for the Cardinals ( 1941 – 46 ), Browns ( 1941 – 48 ), Yankees ( 1950 – 51 ), and Atlanta Braves ( 1966 – 68 ) and nationally with Mutual ( 1952 ), ABC ( 1953 – 54 ), and CBS ( 1955 – 1965 ).

This honor made him the first manager to have had his number retired by two different teams ( the Mets in 1965, the Yankees in 1970 ).

During a 15-year baseball career, he pitched from 1965 to 1979 for both the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees.

Ralph Willard Terry ( born on January 9, 1936 ) is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees ( 1956 – 57, 1959 – 64 ), Kansas City Athletics ( 1957 – 59, 1966 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1965 ) and New York Mets ( 1966 – 67 ).

Oscar Gregorio Azócar ( February 21, 1965 – June 14, 2010 ) was a Venezuelan left fielder in Major League Baseball who played from through for the New York Yankees ( 1990 ) and San Diego Padres ( 1991 -' 92 ).

Larsen pitched for the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles ( 1953 – 1954 ; 1965 ), New York Yankees ( 1955 – 1959 ), Kansas City Athletics ( 1960 – 1961 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1961 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1962 – 1964 ), Houston Colt. 45's / Houston Astros ( 1964 – 1965 ), and Chicago Cubs ( 1967 ).

Mateo Rojas " Matty " Alou ( December 22, 1938 – November 3, 2011 ) was a Dominican outfielder who spent fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) with the San Francisco Giants ( 1960 – 1965 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1966 – 1970 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1971 – 1972, 1973 ), Oakland Athletics ( 1972 ), New York Yankees ( 1973 ) and San Diego Padres ( 1974 ).

* Dulles, Foster Rhea, " Yankees and Samurai: America ’ s Role in the Emergence of Modern Japan, 1791-1900 ", Harper & Row, New York, 1965.

After a brief term as top aide to the new commissioner, Eckert, in 1965 – 66, MacPhail served as the Yankees ' general manager from October 14, 1966 to 1974, a rebuilding phase of the Yanks marked by the promotion of Bobby Murcer and Thurman Munson to the club, but no pennants or postseason appearances.

Curtis Le Roy Blefary ( July 5, 1943 – January 28, 2001 ) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the Baltimore Orioles ( 1965 – 68 ), Houston Astros ( 1969 ), New York Yankees ( 1970 – 71 ), Oakland Athletics ( 1971 – 1972 ) and San Diego Padres ( 1972 ).

He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the New York Yankees between 1965 and 1979.

Bobby Ray Murcer ( May 20, 1946 – July 12, 2008 ) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played for 17 seasons between 1965 and 1983, mostly with the New York Yankees, whom he later rejoined as a longtime broadcaster.

After coming up briefly to the Yankees in 1965 and 1966 amid high expectations — he was hailed as the " next Mickey Mantle "-- Murcer fulfilled his military obligation in 1967 and 1968 before being called up to the majors to stay in 1969.

The following season, 1965, he was the Carolina League MVP with the Greensboro ( N. C .) Yankees.