New York Yankee Team History (Part 7)

Events 601 - 700 of 824

• 1984-02-08 A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation

• 1984-12-05 New York Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Atlanta Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher
• 1984-12-27 Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees

• 1985-04-29 New York Yankees fire manager Yogi Berra 16 games into season, despite assurance from owner George Steinbrenner that he would be kept for the whole season. Billy Martin named as replacement.

• 1985-08-29 NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
• 1985-09-15 New York Yankees trade 25-year-old pitching prospect Jim Deshaies to Houston Astros for 40-year-old pitcher Joe Niekro
• 1985-09-25 Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season
• 1985-10-06 New York Yankees knuckleballer Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games; at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out, beating Toronto 8-0
• 1985-10-17 Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
• 1985-10-27 Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
• 1985-11-20 NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
• 1986-05-03 NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
• 1986-06-08 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
• 1986-07-09 Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson

• 1987-04-11 Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals
• 1987-05-27 New York Yankees knuckleballer Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start, joining Cy Young and Don Sutton
• 1987-06-06 NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
• 1987-06-26 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
• 1987-06-28 Boston outfielder Don Baylor sets MLB career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 when plunked by Rick Rhoden in Red Sox, 6-2 win over NY Yankees

• 1987-07-18 NY Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games
• 1987-09-29 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year
• 1987-10-19 Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM and Billy Martin is named NY Yankee manager for 5th & final time
• 1988-04-20 Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)
• 1988-04-30 NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML Rec
• 1988-06-04 Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee
• 1988-06-11 NY Yankees Rick Rhoden becomes first pitcher since AL's adoption of the rule in 1973 to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI) in an 8–6 victory over Baltimore Orioles
• 1988-06-23 Yanks manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager

• 1988-10-07 Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
• 1988-10-17 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees
• 1988-11-23 Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract
• 1988-12-09 NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M

• 1989-02-03 Baseball's National League announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will its 1st African American President
• 1989-02-26 NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
• 1989-03-06 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
• 1989-04-04 NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
• 1989-05-24 NY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season
• 1989-06-15 Baltimore Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)
• 1989-06-21 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
• 1989-06-21 Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret & Polonia

• 1989-08-18 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager

• 1989-10-13 Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM & replaced by Harding Peterson
• 1990-04-09 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
• 1990-05-11 NY Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt
• 1990-05-23 NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
• 1990-06-06 Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager

• 1990-06-12 NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves
• 1990-06-21 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"

• 1990-06-22 Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns
• 1990-07-12 Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
• 1990-07-17 NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
• 1990-07-19 Dave Righetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
• 1990-07-30 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner of Baseball Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of NY Yankees
• 1990-08-02 Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas hits his 10th MLB homer in 6-5 loss v Detroit, fastest to reach that mark, just 77 at bats
• 1990-08-03 NY Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas sets a MLB record for hitting 10 home runs in the fewest at bats (72)
• 1990-08-20 Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
• 1990-08-20 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
• 1990-08-20 NY Yankee Kevin Maas is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
• 1990-09-09 Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
• 1990-09-10 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
• 1990-09-13 Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
• 1990-09-25 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record
• 1990-10-03 Detroit 1st baseman Cecil Fielder becomes 11th player in MLB history to hit 50 HRs in a season; 50th & 51st in 10-3 win v NY Yankees at Yankee Stadium
• 1991-02-28 Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
• 1991-03-24 NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
• 1991-03-30 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles)
• 1991-05-01 A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals all time MLB record 939th base in 7-4 win vs New York Yankees in Oakland

• 1991-06-03 MLB Draft: East Carteret HS pitcher Brien Taylor first pick by New York Yankees
• 1991-06-18 Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays
• 1991-06-19 NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987
• 1991-07-19 With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
• 1991-07-25 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
• 1991-07-29 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
• 1991-09-11 NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium
• 1991-09-22 NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)
• 1991-09-28 NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
• 1991-10-29 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager
• 1991-12-10 Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
• 1991-12-19 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
• 1991-12-31 Daniel R. McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner
• 1992-01-06 NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul

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