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March 18 – Happy Birthday Brian Fisher

I remember thinking when I first watched him pitch that Brian Fisher would be a good Yankee starter for a number of years. That was back in 1986 and the Yankees had missed the playoffs for five...

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March 22 – Happy Birthday Cory Lidle

Lidle's Yankee career began with promise, quickly grew muddled in controversy and ended in shocking tragedy. He came to New York in the Bobby Abreu trade from Philly during the 2006 season. He won his...

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March 23 – Happy Birthday Dellin Betances

We're going into the Yankee Minor League organization for today's Pinstripe Birthday celebrant. He's one of the "Three Throwing B's" who have received lots of media attention during the...

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May 1 – Happy Birthday Brandon Claussen

This native of Rapid City, SD is the only Yankee I could find who celebrates his birthday on May 1. Claussen appeared in only one game for New York, getting a start and a victory during the 2003...

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May 2 – Happy Birthday Larry Gowell

I love writing this blog because I learn such interesting things about players who wore the pinstripes. Take today’s birthday celebrant as an example. I very clearly remember when Larry Gowell made his...

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May 17 – Happy Birthday Jim McDonald

Yankee fans, the Yankee press and even some of his own Yankee teammates had not been too thrilled with this right-hander’s performance since he came to the Bronx in a November 1951 trade that sent a...

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May 30 – Happy Birthday Al Mamaux

A two-time 20-game winner with his hometwon Pirates, this right-hander went 1-1 with the Yankees in 1924, the final year of his 12-season big-league career. Mamoux is the only member of the all-time...

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June 5 – Happy Birthday Jack Chesbro

When I first started following baseball in 1960, New York Yankees dominated the record book. Babe Ruth's single season and career home run records, Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played, Joe DiMaggio's...

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June 13 – Happy Birthday Darrell May

The only Yankee player in history to be born on June 13th was a journeyman pitcher named Darrell May. The Yankees picked May up from the Padres in July of 2005 in exchange for another reliever named...

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June 28 – Happy Birthday Fred Talbot

It was June of 1966 and the New York Yankees were dissolving faster than a wet Alka Seltzer. Two season’s earlier, the team had fallen three runs short of winning a World Series, but here they were,...

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