On April 27, 1982, in Jackson's first game back at Yankee Stadium with the Angels, he broke out of a terrible season-starting slump to hit a home run off former teammate Ron Guidry.

On August 25, 1996, about a year after his death, Mantle's Monument Park plaque was replaced with a monument, bearing the words " A great teammate " and keeping a phrase that had been included on the original plaque: " A magnificent Yankee who left a legacy of unequaled courage.

In the Puerto Rico youth league, Gonzalez batted cleanup behind future Yankee center fielder Bernie Williams, where both competed against Gonzalez's future teammate Iván Rodríguez.

He ended Game 5 of the 1996 World Series by robbing former Yankee teammate Luis Polonia of the Atlanta Braves of an extra-base hit, preserving a 1 – 0 victory for the Yankees.

* Earle Combs-( Baseball ) Former New York Yankee teammate of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

This occurred immediately following the ejection of teammate outfielder Rocky Colavito, who had bolted into the stands at Yankee Stadium when he observed a Yankee fan tussling with his father.

In his first season with the Arizona Diamondbacks he was selected to the 2008 All-Star game at Yankee Stadium along with his teammate, Brandon Webb.

It was created by Portland Mavericks left-handed pitcher Rob Nelson, and pitched to the Wrigley Company ( longtime owners of the Chicago Cubs ) by former New York Yankee All-Star Jim Bouton, a Maverick teammate of Nelson's, as a fun alternative to the unhealthy tobacco-chewing habit common among ballplayers in the 1970s.

Healy was noted for his close relationship with Reggie Jackson while on the Yankees, where he served as a mediator between the fiery slugger and Yankee manager Billy Martin, as well as teammate, captain Thurman Munson.

Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

The first SI Yankee to reach the major leagues as a New York Yankee was pitcher Jason Anderson, pitching in relief in an 8-4 Yankee win over the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre.

Jason Anderson became the first former SI Yankee to play for the NY Yankees, however, he was traded to the Mets the very next day.

In line with Yankee team rules, Giambi cut his long hair and shaved his goatee.

On September 21, 2008, Giambi recorded the final hit in Yankee Stadium, when he drove in Brett Gardner with an RBI single.

In the 1970s Moon gave a series of public speeches in the United States, including one in Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1974 and two in 1976: in Yankee Stadium in New York City, and on the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, D. C., where Moon spoke on " God's Hope for America " to 300, 000 people.

Although the New Hampshire Yankee rarely spoke at length in legislative debate, his peers recognized his political prowess.

The Confederates developed a unit of men who wore U. S. uniforms and spoke with ' Yankee ' accents to disrupt U. S. defenses in Ohio.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

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.

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

Unlike many power hitters, Ruth also hit for a high batting average: his. 342 lifetime average is the tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season ( 1923 ) he batted. 393, a Yankee record.

He is also well known for his song " Yankee Doodle Dixie ", in which he played " Yankee Doodle " and " Dixie " simultaneously, on the same guitar.

" However, Warners, perhaps searching for another Yankee Doodle Dandy, assigned Cagney a musical for his next picture, 1950's The West Point Story with Doris Day, an actress he admired.

During World War II, to raise money for war bonds, Cagney took part in racing exhibitions at the Roosevelt Raceway and sold seats for the premiere of Yankee Doodle Dandy.

The revived Arthurian romance also proved influential in the United States, with such books as Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur ( 1880 ) reaching wide audiences and providing inspiration for Mark Twain's satiric A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1889 ).

* 1936 – Joe DiMaggio, familiarly referred to as Joltin ' Joe and The Yankee Clipper makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees.

Similarly, the ace of the 1986 team, Dwight Gooden, threw his no-hitter for the Yankees ( in 1996 ), and David Cone, who starred for the Mets from 1987 – 1992, threw a perfect game later in his career, also as a Yankee.

* The New York Yankees face the Arizona Diamondbacks in game 3 of a drama-filled 2001 World Series, with President George W. Bush throwing the ceremonial first pitch for a strike at Yankee Stadium.

The prayer service Sunday 9 / 23 at Yankee Stadium will be by ticket for families and the uniformed services ( fire, police, etc.

* Interfaith memorial service, known as " Prayer for America ," is held at Yankee Stadium.

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.

In 1992 Sun Myung Moon gave the wedding blessing for 30, 000 couples at the Seoul Olympic Stadium and for 13, 000 at the Yankee Stadium.

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.

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

In some parts of the world, particularly in Latin American countries and in East Asia, yankee or yanqui ( the same word spelled according to Spanish orthography ) is sometimes associated with anti-Americanism and used in expressions such as " Yankee go home " or " we struggle against the yanqui, enemy of mankind " ( words from the Sandinista anthem ).

It is commonly understood and used as a mild derogatory term against " white " people ; Thus, it is not uncommon to see Korean people calling white people such as French or Swedish " Yankee ( s )".

Rail passenger revenues declined dramatically between 1920 and 1934 because of the rise of the automobile, but in the mid-1930s, railroads reignited popular imagination with service improvements and new, diesel-powered streamliners, such as the gleaming silver Pioneer Zephyr and Flying Yankee.

Holiday groups use a gift exchange party game such as white elephant gift exchange or Yankee swap for socializing and sharing gifts.

In addition, the studio produced patriotic musicals such as This is the Army and Yankee Doodle Dandy.

When demand increased they took apprentices into the shop and engaged peddlers to travel throughout the Colonies selling the shiny, useful articles ( the seal of the government of the Town of Berlin shows such a " Yankee peddler ", in eighteenth-century dress with a basket under his arm, a pack on his back full of tinware ).

After this movie, Michael Curtiz would work again with James Cagney in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and Captains of the Clouds.

During the revolution itself, poems and songs such as " Yankee Doodle " and " Nathan Hale " were popular.

As a result, the blackface " Sambo " character came to supplant the " tall-tale-telling Yankee " and " frontiersman " character-types in popularity, and white actors such as Charles Mathews, George Washington Dixon, and Edwin Forrest began to build reputations as blackface performers.

Indiana limestone has also been used in many other famous structures in the United States, such as the Empire State Building, the Pentagon, the St. Anthony Society Chapter House at Yale, Yankee Stadium, and the Washington National Cathedral.

* Reggaeton becomes a popular music genre among young people, with artists such as Daddy Yankee and Don Omar crossing over to U. S. markets.

Other such multi-job songs were: " Round the Corn ( er ), Sally ," " Fire Down Below ," " Johnny Come Down to Hilo ," " Hilo, Boys, Hilo ," " Tommy's Gone Away ," " The Sailor Likes His Bottle-O ," " Highland Laddie ," " Mudder Dinah ," " Bully in the Alley ," " Hogeye Man ," " Good Morning, Ladies, All ," " Pay Me the Money Down ," " Alabama, John Cherokee ," " Yankee John, Stormalong ," and " Heave Away ( My Johnnies ).

* 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.

Further humor is obtained by replacing parts of certain classical pieces with similar common songs, such as the opening of Brahms ' Symphony # 2 with " Beautiful Dreamer ", or the opening of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with Yankee Doodle.

In it, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician-and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a " magician " in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks and the shoring up of a holy well.

Songs such as Gasolina by Daddy Yankee and Shakira's La Tortura were top 40 hits.

During the 1920s, Berkeley was a dance director for nearly two dozen Broadway musicals, including such hits as A Connecticut Yankee.

Source material for American nose art was varied, ranging from pinups such as Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable and cartoon characters such as Donald Duck and Popeye to patriotic characters ( Yankee Doodle ) and fictional heroes ( Sam Spade ).

* April 2009: About 150 activists marched from Montpelier's City Hall to the State House to urge lawmakers to back development of clean energy sources such as wind power and solar power ; the marchers had gathered 12, 000 signatures in support of closing Vermont Yankee.