The New York Yankees All-Time All-Stars: The Best Players at Each Position for the Bronx Bombers

by Jim Griffin

Overview

Let’s say you’re the manager of the most successful professional baseball team in history, with every past and current player available on your bench. Game time is approaching and the ump needs your line-up card. Who’s your starting pitcher? Crafty Whitey Ford, lights-out Ron Guidry, or a big-game right-hander? Is Munson behind the plate or Yogi? Who’ll bat clean-up? Who’s your DH? Combining statistical analysis, common sense, and a host of intangibles, Jim Griffin constructs an all-time All-Star Yankee line-up for the ages. Agree with his choices or not, you’ll learn all there is to know about the men who played for and managed the winning-est baseball team of all time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493038176
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/29/2019
Series:	All-Time All-Stars
Pages:	280
Sales rank:	1,052,223
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jim Griffin is a lifelong baseball fan with experience writing for Yankee-specific blogs from 2010 through 2016. An analyst by trade, he holds degrees in Mathematical Sciences (B.S.) and Applied Statistics (M.S.) from Villanova University where his master’s thesis was a study on New York Yankees offensive statistics since 1920. Accordingly, he makes liberal use of key performance metrics and statistical concepts to support his written material.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction: Setting the Stage ix

Chapter I Catchers 1

Yogi Berra 1

Bill Dickey 8

Thurman Munson 12

Jorge Posada 16

Chapter II First Basemen 23

Lou Gehrig 23

Don Mattingly 30

Chapter III Second Basemen 37

Willie Randolph 37

Joe Gordon 42

Robinson Canó 46

Chapter IV Third Basemen 53

Graig Nettles 53

Alex Rodriguez 58

Chapter V Shortstops 65

Derek Jeter 65

Phil Rizzuto 73

Chapter VI Outfielders 79

Babe Ruth 79

Mickey Mantle 87

Joe DiMaggio 96

Charlie Keller 104

Bernie Williams 110

Roy White 116

Earle Combs 122

Tommy Henrich 126

Reggie Jackson 130

Chapter VII Pitchers 137

Whitey Ford 137

Ron Guidry 145

Lefty Gomez 152

Andy Pettitte 158

Red Ruffing 165

Waite Hoyt 171

Mel Stottlemyre 177

David Cone 183

Mike Mussina 189

Mariano Rivera 196

Dave Righetti 204

Goose Gossage 210

Chapter VIII Manager 215

Joe McCarthy 215

Chapter IX Optimization of Batting Order 219

Chapter X Honorable Mentions 225

Acknowledgments 235

Appendix I Statistics and Supplemental Factors Used for Rankings 237

Appendix II Detailed Rankings 243

Bibliography 257