Updated: February 15, 2010 Brief Timeline 1903: Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase the defunct

t Baltimore franchise of the American League and move the team to Manhattan, New York 1912: Pinstripes appear on the teams uniforms 1913: Team is renamed from the Highlanders to the Yankees 1917: George Mogridge is the first Yankee to throw a no-hitter in a 2-1 win at Fenway Park 1920: Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry begins 1921: Yankees win their first American League Pennant 1922: Construction begins on Yankee Stadium 1923: Yankee Stadium opens with a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox Babe Ruth hits the Stadiums first home run 1932: Lou Gehrig becomes the first and only Yankee to hit 4 home runs in a single game 1939: Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium #4 becomes the first number to be retired in MLB history Gehrig makes his famous Today I consider myself to be the luckiest man on the face of this earth speech 1956: Don Larsen pitches the Yankees first perfect game, the first and only perfect game and no-hitter in the World Series/Postseason 1964: CBS purchases 80% of the Yankees for $11,200,000, and later purchase the last 20% 1973: George M. Steinbrenner III buys the Yankees from CBS 1998: David Wells pitches the Yankees second perfect game, 14th in MLB history 1999: David Cone pitches the Yankees third perfect game, 15th in MLB history 2000: Yankees win their 26th World Championship in the first Subway Series since 1956 2004: Mike Mussina and Kevin Brown record their 200th victories in back-to-back, becoming the first teammates in Major League history to do so 2005: Alex Rodriguez becomes the first Yankees right-handed hitter since DiMaggio in 1937 to hit 40 home runs in one season 2008: Final season in the Old Yankee Stadium 2009: New Yankee Stadium is opened Yankees set an all-time Major League mark with 18 consecutive errorless games Derek Jeter breaks Lou Gehrigs all-time franchise mark of 2,721 hits Retired Numbers Yankees have 15 retired numbers, the most in the MLB Numbers: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 32, 37, 44, 49 Mariano Rivera can keep wearing #42 even though its retired for Jackie Robinson because of a grandfather clause Numbers 21, 51, 35 and 6 have not been used since Paul ONeill, Bernie Williams, Mike Mussina and Joe Torre left the team, respectively - more -

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Current Team Team Captain: Derek Jeter, #2 27 World Series titles: 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009 40 American League Pennants 16 East Division Titles Official Fight Song: Here Come the Yankees Mariano Rivera enters the stadium to Enter Sandman by Metallica Joba Chamberlain enters to Shout at the Devil by Mley Cre Derek Jeter enters to Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys 2009 Season Statistics Wins: 103 | Losses: 59 | Pct: .636 Leaders: o AVG Derek Jeter: .334 o HR Mark Teixeira: 39 o RBI Mark Teixeira: 122 o SB Derek Jeter: 30 o W C.C. Sabathia: 19 o ERA C.C. Sabathia: 3.37 o Saves Mariano Rivera: 44 o K C.C. Sabathia: 197 General Batting: o AVG .283 o Runs 915 o Hits 1,604 o Home Runs 244 o Stolen Bases 111 o OBP .362 o SLG .478 o Total Bases 2,703 General Pitching: o Earned Run Average 4.26 o Runs Allowed 753 o Saves 51 o Strikeouts 1,260 o OpBA .251 o OBP .327 o SLG .408 o Run Support 5.68 - end -