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1929 New York Yankees
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BallparkYankee Stadium
CityNew York City, New York
OwnersJacob Ruppert
ManagersMiller Huggins, Art Fletcher
Televisionnone
Radionone
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The 1929 New York Yankees season was the team's 27th season in New York and its 29th overall. The team finished with a record of 88–66, finishing in second place, 18 games behind the Philadelphia Athletics. This ended a streak of three straight World Series appearances for the club. New York was managed by Miller Huggins until his death on September 25. They played at Yankee Stadium.

Regular season

  • April 16, 1929: The New York Yankees took to the field with uniform numbers for the first time on the backs on their uniforms, the first team to make them permanent.[1]

Season standings

American League
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
Philadelphia Athletics 104 46 .693 — 57‍–‍16 47‍–‍30
New York Yankees 88 66 .571 18 49‍–‍28 39‍–‍38
Cleveland Indians 81 71 .533 24 44‍–‍32 37‍–‍39
St. Louis Browns 79 73 .520 26 41‍–‍36 38‍–‍37
Washington Senators 71 81 .467 34 37‍–‍40 34‍–‍41
Detroit Tigers 70 84 .455 36 38‍–‍39 32‍–‍45
Chicago White Sox 59 93 .388 46 35‍–‍41 24‍–‍52
Boston Red Sox 58 96 .377 48 32‍–‍45 26‍–‍51

Record vs. opponents

1929 American League record

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH
Boston — 11–11 9–13 8–14 5–17 4–18 11–11–1 10–12
Chicago 11–11 — 9–12 10–12 6–16 9–13 4–17 10–12
Cleveland 13–9 12–9 — 11–11 14–8 7–14 10–12 14–8
Detroit 14–8 12–10 11–11 — 9–13 4–18 10–12 10–12–1
New York 17–5 16–6 8–14 13–9 — 8–14 14–8 12–10
Philadelphia 18–4 13–9 14–7 18–4 14–8 — 11–10–1 16–4
St. Louis 11–11–1 17–4 12–10 12–10 8–14 10–11–1 — 9–13
Washington 12–10 12–10 8–14 12–10–1 10–12 4–16 13–9 —


Roster

Beginning from that year onward the Yankees put the player's jersey numbers on the backs of their white home and grey road uniforms, making them the first MLB team to put player numbers in their uniforms on a permanent basis.

1929 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

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
C Bill Dickey 130 447 145 .324 10 65
1B Lou Gehrig 154 553 166 .300 35 126
2B Tony Lazzeri 147 545 193 .354 18 106
3B Gene Robertson 90 309 92 .298 0 35
SS Leo Durocher 100 341 84 .246 0 32
LF Earle Combs 142 586 202 .345 3 65
CF Bob Meusel 100 391 102 .261 10 57
RF Babe Ruth 135 499 172 .345 46 154

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
Mark Koenig 116 373 109 .292 3 41
Lyn Lary 80 236 73 .309 5 26
Cedric Durst 92 202 52 .257 4 31
Samuel Byrd 62 170 53 .312 5 28
Ben Paschal 42 72 15 .208 2 11
Benny Bengough 23 62 12 .194 0 7
Johnny Grabowski 22 59 12 .203 0 2
Arndt Jorgens 18 34 11 .324 0 4
Julie Wera 5 12 5 .417 0 2
George Burns 9 9 0 .000 0 0
Liz Funk 1 0 0 --- 0 0

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
George Pipgras 39 225.1 18 12 4.23 125
Waite Hoyt 30 201.2 10 9 4.24 57
Ed Wells 31 193.1 13 9 4.33 78
Herb Pennock 27 157.1 9 11 4.92 49

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
Roy Sherid 33 154.2 6 6 3.61 51
Fred Heimach 35 134.2 11 6 4.01 26
Tom Zachary 26 119.2 12 0 2.48 35
Hank Johnson 12 42.2 3 3 5.06 24
Gordon Rhodes 10 42.2 0 4 4.85 13
Myles Thomas 5 15 0 2 10.80 3

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
Wilcy Moore 41 6 4 9 4.13 21
Bots Nekola 9 0 0 0 4.34 2

Awards and honors

League top ten finishers

Lou Gehrig

  • #2 in AL in home runs (35)
  • #2 in AL in on-base percentage (.431)
  • #3 in AL in runs scored (127)
  • #3 in AL in walks (122)
  • #4 in AL in RBI (126)
  • #4 in AL in slugging percentage (.584)

Tony Lazzeri

  • #4 in AL in on-base percentage (.429)

George Pipgras

  • #3 in AL in strikeouts (125)

Babe Ruth

  • MLB leader in home runs (46)
  • MLB leader in slugging percentage (.697)
  • #2 in AL in RBI (154)
  • #3 in AL in on-base percentage (.430)

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
D Chambersburg Young Yanks Blue Ridge League Tommy Clarke

[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Numbelivable!, p.89, Michael X. Ferraro and John Veneziano, Triumph Books, Chicago, Illinois, 2007, ISBN 978-1-57243-990-0
  2. ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

References

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