Rare Baby Bombers Season?
There’s a CHANCE that the Yankees COULD have 5+ players in 2017 age 27 or younger play 100+ games in the season season.
The last time that happened in Yankeeland was 1968. (And, that’s a long time ago.) In fact, it’s only happened twice since 1959.
Rk | Year | #Matching | |
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1 | 1949 | 6 | Hank Bauer / Yogi Berra / Bobby Brown / Jerry Coleman / Cliff Mapes / Gene Woodling |
2 | 1968 | 5 | Bobby Cox / Andy Kosco / Joe Pepitone / Bill Robinson / Roy White |
3 | 1963 | 5 | Clete Boyer / Tony Kubek / Joe Pepitone / Bobby Richardson / Tom Tresh |
4 | 1958 | 5 | Andy Carey / Tony Kubek / Mickey Mantle / Norm Siebern / Bill Skowron |
5 | 1950 | 5 | Hank Bauer / Yogi Berra / Jerry Coleman / Joe Collins / Gene Woodling |
6 | 1941 | 5 | Joe DiMaggio / Joe Gordon / Charlie Keller / Phil Rizzuto / Johnny Sturm |
7 | 1931 | 5 | Samuel Byrd / Ben Chapman / Bill Dickey / Lyn Lary / Tony Lazzeri |
8 | 1930 | 5 | Ben Chapman / Bill Dickey / Lou Gehrig / Lyn Lary / Tony Lazzeri |
9 | 1929 | 5 | Bill Dickey / Leo Durocher / Lou Gehrig / Mark Koenig / Tony Lazzeri |
10 | 1917 | 5 | Tim Hendryx / Fritz Maisel / Elmer Miller / Roger Peckinpaugh / Wally Pipp |
11 | 1915 | 5 | Luke Boone / Hugh High / Fritz Maisel / Roger Peckinpaugh / Wally Pipp |
12 | 1909 | 5 | Hal Chase / Birdie Cree / Ray Demmitt / Clyde Engle / John Knight |
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As you can see above, it’s only happened 12 times in franchise history. And, half of those times was before 1932.