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" 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.
Dan Topping, owner of the NFL's Brooklyn Tigers, wished to move his team from Ebbets Field to the much larger Yankee Stadium.
The first Sunday game to be played legally in New York, it was ended after the 12th inning, still scoreless, because Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert mistakenly believed the new law barred play after 6 PM.
Team owner Ted Collins, who managed singer Kate Smith, picked the name " Yanks " because he originally wanted to run a team that played at New York City's Yankee Stadium.
He feuded publicly with both Yankee owner George Steinbrenner and star outfielder Reggie Jackson.
Former United States President Richard Nixon and Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, along with many former New York Yankees greats attended Martin's funeral service.
Howser was one of the few Yankee managers who refused to let owner George Steinbrenner push him around.
The A's owner then ordered a white line to be painted on the field at the original " Pennant Porch " distance, and told the public address announcer to announce " That would have been a home run in Yankee Stadium " whenever a fly ball was hit past that line but short of the fence.
Yankee owner George Steinbrenner retired Munson's number 15 immediately upon his catcher's death.
The decision was controversial as Berroa beat out both Baldelli and Matsui in the closest vote since 1980, prompting criticism from Yankee owner George Steinbrenner.
Yankee owner George Steinbrenner also labeled him as a " Warrior.
On April 14, 2011 Entergy, the owner of Vermont Yankee sued the state of Vermont to stay open despite the Senate's blocking vote.
During spring training 1947, Durocher became involved in an unseemly feud with the new Yankee owner, Larry MacPhail.
After Game 2, Joe Torre and his first base coach José Cardenal met with Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, furious at the team's performance in the World Series so far.
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.
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner issued a statement following his death: " Bobby Murcer was a born Yankee, a great guy, very well-liked and a true friend of mine.
The Majors also won the Intercounty title in 1956 with former New York Yankee / Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder Frank Colman as the owner of the team.
He was released from jail on a work-release program when Yankee owner George Steinbrenner offered him a job in minor-league player development for the team.
Steve is then brought down to the field in a helicopter-an idea that is actually Al's, but which Yankee owner, George Steinbrenner ( playing himself ) takes credit for himself.
While Steinbrenner's commanding style has led some to think the new owner influenced his retirement, he told Bill Madden of the New York Daily News it was the constant booing of Yankee fans that pushed him.
When one of the soldiers is prevented, by his commanding officer, from taking a gilded sword that once belonged to Scarlett's long-dead father-in-law and intended for her little boy Wade Hamilton ( the officer is himself a veteran of the same campaigns as the sword's former owner ), the thwarted Yankee soldier expresses his indignation by secretly setting a wing of the house on fire as the Yankees are leaving.
Lidle was the third Yankee to die in a plane crash in which the player was the owner.

Yankee and Jacob
Johnson had promised Yankee owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston to get them better players, but never followed through.

Yankee and Ruppert
Huston and Ruppert explored many areas for Yankee Stadium.
Ruppert served in the United States House of Representatives and owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, during which time he purchased Babe Ruth and built Yankee Stadium

Yankee and was
Seeing the slanting hand, Kate knew uneasily that it was from the Yankee colonel.
and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.
The line entered the pop-consciousness with Game Two of the 1977 World Series, when a fire broke out near Yankee Stadium as the team was playing the Los Angeles Dodgers.
John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.
Smith was born January 13, 1893 in Long Valley, California, of English and Yankee parentage.
It came after the umpire allegedly told Hank that he was ready to call the game due to darkness, because the ump — former Yankee pitching star of the 1920s Murderers Row team, George Pipgras, supposedly said " Sorry Hank, but I'm gonna have to call the game.
He was also the featured singer at the Concert of Hope immediately preceding Pope Benedict XVI's Mass at Yankee Stadium in April 2008.
The word " Moonie " was first used by the American news media in the 1970s when Sun Myung Moon moved to the United States and came into public notice through a series of public speeches he gave, including at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1974 and Yankee Stadium and the grounds of the Washington Monument in 1976.
Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, to an established Yankee family.
The first no-hitter in postseason history was New York Yankee pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
Outside of a potentially game-changing but barely foul ' home run ' off Whitey Ford in Game Six, Clemente was generally kept off balance by Yankee hurlers.
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 ).
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.
Clemens would also find himself the point of minor controversy when it was revealed in the book The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci that Clemens ' bizarre pre-game ritual included soaking in extremely hot water then having the hottest possible muscle liniment applied to his genitals during his rub-down.
The first major time travel novel was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Lincecum was selected to the 2008 MLB All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium but was unable to pitch due to being hospitalized with flu-like symptoms.
Gossage, a former New York Yankee, said the San Diego crowd at Game 3 was " the loudest crowd I've ever heard anywhere.
One of the few bright spots of the series for the Padres was a home run by Tony Gwynn, in Game 1 that hit the facing of the right-field upper deck at Yankee Stadium and put the Padres ahead briefly, 5 – 2.
Williams said that " just about everybody was rooting for me " to hit. 400 in the season, including Yankee fans, who gave pitcher Lefty Gomez a " hell of a boo " after walking Williams with the bases loaded after Williams had gotten three straight hits one game in September.
Heckart was married to John Harrison Yankee, Jr. from 1942 until his death in 1997.
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.
" Later British use of the word often was derogatory, as in a cartoon of 1775 ridiculing " Yankee " soldiers.
An early use of the term outside the United States was in the creation of Sam Slick, the " Yankee Clockmaker ", in a column in a newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1835.
In an old joke, a Southerner alleges, " I was twenty-one years old before I learned that ' damn ' and ' Yankee ' were separate words.

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