If you’re reading this, you probably would have guessed that Berra and O’Neill ranked high on the list of most ejections as a Yankees player. * Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Lou Piniella, Jake Powell, Red Kleinow, Bob Shawkey Most Ejections as a Yankees Player Kid Elberfeld One additional note: The Yankees had 19 ejections in that 1906 season, more than any other year (1984 had 17).Īs you’ll see in the chart below, there are some familiar names on the list but they didn’t quite reach the level of anger of Elberfeld. Then, on September 3, the two went at it again in a brawl described by the New York Times as “one of the most disgraceful scenes ever witnessed on a baseball field.” The Highlanders were in a close pennant race with Chicago, and when Elberfeld was suspended for only a total of eight games by President Johnson, some viewed it as an act of favoritism toward the Highlanders. The first, on August 8, occurred when Elberfeld was denied first base by after being hit by a pitch, prompting him to menace the umpire with a bat. In late 1906 he also had two memorable run-ins with umpire Silk O’Loughlin. He believed, like those Oriole players, that an umpire should be kept in his place, and that what happened behind an arbiter’s back was none of his business. “ “ Kid Elberfeld, called “the dirtiest, scrappiest, most pestiferous, most rantankerous, most rambunctious ball player that ever stood on spikes” for his vicious arguments on the diamond, patterned his combative style after that of his favorite team, the Baltimore Orioles of the mid-1890s. Let’s look at a couple of paragraphs from his SABR BioProject The record for most ejections by a Yankees player is 17 by Kid Elberfeld. The Yankees have had at least two ejections in every season since 1961, so multiple ejections in 2020 is not surprising. That streak was extended in 2020 with Phil Nevin got run by Angel Hernandez and tacked onto when Aaron Boone and Marcus Thames got tossed over the weekend. With the help of newspaper accounts from the time, here are some of our most interesting (and humorous) findings.įrom 1903 to 2019, there have been 803 Yankees ejections, with at least one in every season. It’s one that allows us to look at the Yankees in an entirely different light. ![]() It is a wonderful and incredibly comprehensive tool. Retrosheet recently made the Doug Pappas ejection database available on its website (since taken over by David Smith). ![]() With the subject of pennants, championships and memorable personalities exhausted by the many books on the subject ( including mine!), I decided to take a look at their history in another way – through their ejections. ![]() The proud, storied tradition of the New York Yankees can be documented in many ways.
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