1927 New York Yankees season

1927 New York Yankees
Babe Ruth hits 60 homers
American League Champions
World Series Champions
Major League affiliations
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Owner(s) Jacob Ruppert
General manager(s) Ed Barrow
Manager(s) Miller Huggins
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The 1927 New York Yankees season was their 25th season. The team finished with a record of 110–44, winning their fifth pennant and finishing 19 games ahead of the Philadelphia Athletics and were tied for first or better for the whole season.[1] New York was managed by Miller Huggins. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they swept the Pittsburgh Pirates. This Yankees team is known for their feared lineup, which was nicknamed "Murderers' Row". This team is widely considered to be the best baseball team in the history of MLB.[2][3][4]

Regular season

Yankee Stadium in 1927.

The Yankees' 110 victories broke the previous American League mark of 105 (set by the 1912 Boston Red Sox) and would stand as the American League single-season record until it was broken by the Cleveland Indians in 1954.

This was the first year the Yankees acknowledged their team nickname on their uniforms, albeit their road uniforms. Their home uniforms remained free of any kind of logo except for the "NY" on their caps.

The roster included seven future Hall of Famers: Pitchers Herb Pennock and Waite Hoyt, Infielders Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri, outfielders Babe Ruth and Earle Combs, and Manager Miller Huggins.

Babe Ruth

With the race long since decided, the nation's attention turned to Babe Ruth's pursuit of his own home run mark of 59, set in 1921. Early in the season, Ruth expressed doubts about his chances: "I don't suppose I'll ever break that 1921 record. To do that, you've got to start early, and the pitchers have got to pitch to you. I don't start early, and the pitchers haven't really pitched to me in four seasons. I get more bad balls to hit than any other five men...and fewer good ones." Ruth was also being challenged for his slugger's crown by teammate Lou Gehrig, who nudged ahead of Ruth's total in midseason, prompting the New York World-Telegram to anoint Gehrig the favorite. But Ruth caught Gehrig (who would finish with 47), and then had a remarkable last leg of the season, hitting 17 home runs in September. His 60th came on September 30, in the Yankees' next-to-last game. Ruth was exultant, shouting after the game, "Sixty, count 'em, sixty! Let's see some son-of-a-b**** match that!" In later years, he would give Gehrig some credit: "Pitchers began pitching to me because if they passed me they still had Lou to contend with." In addition to his career-high 60 home runs, Ruth batted .356, drove in 164 runs and slugged .772.

Babe Ruth's 60 home runs

HR Date Pitcher
1April 15, 1927Howard Ehmke
2April 23, 1927Rube Walberg
3April 24, 1927Sloppy Thurston
4April 29, 1927Slim Harriss
5May 1, 1927Jack Quinn
6May 1, 1927Rube Walberg
7May 10, 1927Milt Gaston
8May 11, 1927Ernie Nevers
9May 17, 1927Rip Collins
10May 22, 1927Benn Karr
11May 23, 1927Sloppy Thurston
12May 28, 1927Sloppy Thurston
13May 29, 1927Danny MacFayden
14May 30, 1927Rube Walberg
15May 31, 1927Jack Quinn
16May 31, 1927Howard Ehmke
17June 5, 1927Earl Whitehill
18June 7, 1927Tommy Thomas
19June 11, 1927Garland Buckeye
20June 11, 1927Garland Buckeye
21June 12, 1927George Uhle
22June 16, 1927Tom Zachary
23June 22, 1927Hal Wiltse
24June 22, 1927Hal Wiltse
25June 30, 1927Slim Harriss
26July 3, 1927Hod Lisenbee
27July 8, 1927Don Hankins
28July 9, 1927Ken Holloway
29July 9, 1927Ken Holloway
30July 12, 1927Joe Shaute
31July 24, 1927Tommy Thomas
32July 26, 1927Milt Gaston
33July 27, 1927Milt Gaston
34July 28, 1927Lefty Stewart
35August 5, 1927George Smith
36August 10, 1927Tom Zachary
37August 16, 1927Tommy Thomas
38August 17, 1927Sarge Connally
39August 20, 1927Jake Miller
40August 22, 1927Joe Shaute
41August 27, 1927Ernie Nevers
42August 28, 1927Ernie Wingard
43August 31, 1927Tony Welzer
44September 2, 1927Rube Walberg
45September 6, 1927Tony Welzer
46September 6, 1927Tony Welzer
47September 6, 1927Jack Russell
48September 7, 1927Danny MacFayden
49September 7, 1927Slim Harriss
50September 11, 1927Milt Gaston
51September 13, 1927Willis Hudlin
52September 13, 1927Joe Shaute
53September 16, 1927Ted Blankenship
54September 18, 1927Ted Lyons
55September 21, 1927Sam Gibson
56September 22, 1927Ken Holloway
57September 27, 1927Lefty Grove
58September 29, 1927Hod Lisenbee
59September 29, 1927Paul Hopkins
60September 30, 1927Tom Zachary

Season standings

American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 11044 0.714 — 57–19 53–25
Philadelphia Athletics 9163 0.591 19 50–27 41–36
Washington Senators 8569 0.552 25 51–28 34–41
Detroit Tigers 8271 0.536 27½ 44–32 38–39
Chicago White Sox 7083 0.458 39½ 38–37 32–46
Cleveland Indians 6687 0.431 43½ 35–42 31–45
St. Louis Browns 5994 0.386 50½ 38–38 21–56
Boston Red Sox 51103 0.331 59 29–49 22–54

Record vs. opponents

1927 American League Records

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston —11–1115–75–174–186–166–164–18
Chicago 11–11—8–1413–85–178–1415–710–12
Cleveland 7–1514–8—7–1510–1210–1210–118–14
Detroit 17–58–1315–7—8–149–1314–8–111–11–2
New York 18–417–512–1014–8—14–8–121–114–8
Philadelphia 16–614–812–1013–98–14–1—16–612–10
St. Louis 16–67–1511–108–14–11–216–16—10–12–1
Washington 18–412–1014–811–11–28–1410–1212–10–1—

Roster

1927 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CPat Collins9225169.275736
1BLou Gehrig155584218.37347175
2BTony Lazzeri153570176.30918102
3BJoe Dugan112387104.269243
SSMark Koenig123526150.285362
OFEarle Combs152648231.356664
OFBabe Ruth151540192.35660164
OFBob Meusel135516174.3378103

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Johnny Grabowski7019554.277025
Ray Morehart7319550.256120
Cedric Durst6512932.248025
Mike Gazella5411532.27809
Benny Bengough318521.247010
Ben Paschal508226.317216
Julie Wera384210.23818

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Waite Hoyt36256.12272.6386
Urban Shocker312001862.8435
Herb Pennock34209.21983.0051
Dutch Ruether271841363.3845
George Pipgras29166.11034.1181

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Wilcy Moore502131972.2875
Myles Thomas2188.2744.8725

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Bob Shawkey192342.8923
Joe Giard160008.0010
Walter Beall10009.000

1927 World Series

Game Date Visitor Score Home Score Record

(NYY-PIT)

 Attendance
1 October 5 New York Yankees 5 Pittsburgh Pirates 4 1–0 41,467
2 October 6 New York Yankees 6 Pittsburgh Pirates 2 2–0 41,634
3 October 7 Pittsburgh Pirates 1 New York Yankees 8 3–0 60,695
4 October 8 Pittsburgh Pirates 3 New York Yankees 4 4–0 57,909
New York Yankees win 4–0

Awards and honors

Since a voter could select only one player per team, two good candidates from the same team could find their votes split and both of their chances of winning hurt. In addition, the clause prohibiting repeat winners led to unusual results like Babe Ruth's 1927 (one of the greatest offensive seasons of all time) not being eligible for the award. As The New York Times wrote in 1925, "[T]he purpose, of course, is to pass the honor around, but the effect is to pass an empty honor around."[5]

League leaders

Franchise records

  • Earle Combs, Yankees single season record, triples in a season (23)

In 2016, ESPN announced 1927: The Diary of Myles Thomas, part a new genre of storytelling known as "real-time historical fiction."[7] The core of the project is a historical novel in the form of a diary of Myles Thomas, written by Douglas Alden, complemented by a wealth of fact-based content from the season, all published along the same timeline as the events unfolded almost 90 years ago. Through Myles Thomas's diary entries, additional essays and real-time social-media components (including Twitter[8]) "re-living" that famous Yankees season, the goal is to explore the rarefied nexus of baseball, jazz and Prohibition — defining elements of the remarkable world that existed in 1927. The diary runs the length of the full 1927 season, from April 13 through October 10, 1927.[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1927-schedule-scores.shtml
  2. ↑ "Tom Verducci's Top 10 Teams of All Time". SportsIllustrated.com https://www.si.com/mlb/photos/2010/03/30tom-verduccis-top-10-teams-of-all-time/1
  3. ↑ "The Best Major League Baseball Team Ever from 1902–2005". BaseballAlmanac.com. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/best_major_league_teams_ever.shtml
  4. ↑ Bryson, Bill (2013), One Summer: America 1927, Doubleday, ISBN 978-0767919401, OCLC 841198242
  5. ↑ "Review-The Week In Sports-Outlook". (September 28, 1925). The New York Times, Sports, p. 17.
  6. ↑ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.98, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
  7. ↑ 1927: The Diary of Myles Thomas
  8. ↑ 1927: The Diary of Myles Thomas on Twitter
  9. ↑ About the Diary of Myles Thomas

References

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