Damn Yankees by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Damn Yankees

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second on the balloting." Ted Williams won it with a .343 batting average and 43 home runs. James further commented about that year saying; "In 1949. everything started to come back together. While every other Yankee regular battled injuries, Rizzuto played 153 games, gluing the Yankee defense together to take Casey's first pennant. By the end of the year sportswriters were once more arguing that Rizzuto was the best shortstop in baseball. In 1950 he was the best player in baseball, at any position."

Philip Francis Rizzuto, nicknamed "the Scooter," spent his entire 13 year baseball career with the New York Yankees, 1941– 1956, and was finally elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.