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February 20 – Happy Birthday Tommy Henrich
"Old Reliable" played some great baseball for New York during an 11-season career that was interrupted by military service in WWII. A .282 lifetime hitter, Henrich teamed with Joe DiMaggio and Charlie...
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January 7 – Happy Birthday Johnny Mize
Known as "the Big Cat," Mize was an outstanding hitter and first baseman in the National League with the Giants and Cardinals for a decade, before joining the Yankees in 1949 and helping Casey Stengel...
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January 4 – Happy Birthday George Selkirk
Talk about the ultimate "can't win" situation, imagine you're the guy who's been selected to replace Babe Ruth as the Yankee's starting right fielder. That was the role given to this Canadian in 1935...
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January 8 – Happy Birthday Jason Giambi
In 2009, Jason Giambi had concluded a seven year contract with New York that paid him about $120 million. Jason was one of baseball's self-admitted steroid user. He was also a terrible defensive first...
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February 23 – Happy Birthday Elston Howard
I was a huge Elston Howard fan when I was a kid. He never seemed to get the amount of media attention accorded to his more famous Yankee teammates but he certainly got the attention of Yankee...
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February 25 – Happy Birthday Paul O’Neill
Former Yankee right fielder, Paul O'Neill, was born in Columbus, OH on today's date in 1963. A great Yankee, O'Neill joined New York in a 1992 postseason trade with the Reds that sent Roberto Kelly to...
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January 9 – Happy Birthday Ralph Terry
An on-the-field failure by today's birthday celebrant, actually left me in tears. Yeah, I know Tom Hanks insisted "there's no crying in baseball" in the movie "A League of Their Own," but he wasn't a...
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December 7 – Happy Birthday Tino Martinez
Tino Martinez was a great Yankee. During his seven seasons in pinstripes, this Tampa native who was born in 1967 drove in 739 runs, hit 192 of his 339 career home runs and won four World Series rings....
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December 31 – Happy Birthday Tommy Byrne
Tommy Byrne was one of the best hitting pitchers in baseball during the 1950s. Often called on to pinch hit, he had a career .238 batting average and drove in an amazing 98 runs in just 601 lifetime at...
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January 2 – Happy Birthday David Cone
"Conie" joined the Yankees in 1995 and helped them reach postseason play in each of the six years he wore the pinstripes. A five-time All Star (twice as a Yankee), David had two 20-victory seasons...
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