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1921 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1921
misc	American League Champion
league	American League
ballpark	Polo Grounds
city	New York City, New York
record
league_place	1st
owners	Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston
general_managers	Ed Barrow
managers	Miller Huggins

The 1921 New York Yankees season was the 19th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 98–55, winning their first pennant in franchise history, winning the American League by 4 games over the previous year's champion, the Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Miller Huggins. Their home games were played at the Polo Grounds.

Regular season

With star slugger Babe Ruth hitting 59 home runs, setting a new major league home run record for the third consecutive year, while also having his greatest overall season statistically, the Yankees appeared to be the team to beat in the World Series. Their landlords, the New York Giants, had rebuilt after slipping a bit in the late 1910s, and had won the National League pennant. For the first time, all the games of a World Series would be held in the same ballpark, the Polo Grounds. The best-5-of-9 Series (its last before returning to the best-4-of-7 format) saw the Yankees take a 2 games to 0 lead and later a 3–2 series lead, but Ruth suffered a serious injury in game 3 that limited his appearances in the remaining games, save for one pinch-hit appearance, and the Giants rallied to win the Series 5 games to 3.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1921 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league leader

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	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	134	424	134	.316	6	55
1B	153	588	174	.296	8	98
2B	153	556	170	.306	5	75
3B	94	330	97	.294	9	71
SS	149	577	166	.288	8	71
OF	152	540	204	.378	59	171
OF	149	598	190	.318	24	138
OF	56	242	72	.298	4	36

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
71	215	56	.260	1	24
66	207	58	.280	1	19
43	152	43	.283	2	10
31	87	15	.172	0	12
41	73	21	.280	2	15
23	62	11	.177	1	5
22	49	17	.347	0	7
13	42	11	.262	0	2
4	5	1	.200	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
49	336.2	27*	9	3.05	70
43	282.1	19	13	3.09	102
38	245.0	18	12	4.08	35
14	81.2	5	4	2.98	35
8	52.2	4	3	3.76	22

Note: Carl Mays was team leader in saves with 7.

Tied with Urban Shocker (St Louis Browns)

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
28	137.1	11	5	5.44	64
33	119.0	8	7	3.78	44
17	56.1	3	1	5.91	9
2	9.0	2	0	9.00	2

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
	12	1	0	1	5.45	7
	5	0	1	1	7.36	0

World Series

Main article: 1921 World Series

Game	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Score	Record	Attendance
1	October 5	New York Yankees	3	New York Giants	0	0–1	30,202
2	October 6	New York Giants	0	New York Yankees	3	0–2	34,939
3	October 7	New York Yankees	5	New York Giants	13	1–2	36,509
4	October 9 ‡	New York Giants	4	New York Yankees	2	2–2	36,372
5	October 10 ‡	New York Yankees	3	New York Giants	1	2–3	35,758
6	October 11 ‡	New York Giants	8	New York Yankees	5	3–3	34,238
7	October 12 ‡	New York Yankees	1	New York Giants	2	4–3	36,503
8	October 13 ‡	New York Giants	1	New York Yankees	0	5–3	25,410

Awards and honors

Major league records

Babe Ruth, major league record, Most total bases in one season (457)

Franchise records

Babe Ruth, Yankees single season record, runs scored in a season (177)

Notes

References

''Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records'', p.54, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, {{ISBN. 978-1-55365-507-7

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