January 25 – Happy Birthday Dale Mohorcic
This five-year big league veteran reliever was acquired by the Yankees from Texas in a trade for reliever Cecilio Guante, late in the 1988 season. The Cleveland, Ohio native won two games and lost two...
View ArticleJanuary 25 – Happy Birthday Les Nunamaker
Les Nunamaker was the second starting catcher in New York Yankee history. He succeeded a guy named Jeff Sweeney who in addition to being the first starting catcher for the Yankees in 1913, had also...
View ArticleJanuary 25 – Happy Birthday Steve Roser
He was considered the best pitcher in the history of Clarkson University, a small engineering school in northwestern New York State. Born in Rome, New York in 1918, his real first name was Emerson but...
View ArticleJanuary 25 – Happy Birthday Roy Sherid
When Wilcy Moore’s sore right arm wasn’t feeling better by the end of the team’s 1929 spring training camp, Miller Huggins was asked who he would use in place of his ace relief pitcher. Moore had just...
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