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1951 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1951
misc	World Series champions
American League champions
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City
record
league_place	1st
owners	Dan Topping
Del Webb
general_managers	George Weiss
managers	Casey Stengel
television	WABD/WPIX
radio	WINS (AM)
(Mel Allen, Bill Crowley, Dizzy Dean, Art Gleeson)

American League champions Del Webb (Mel Allen, Bill Crowley, Dizzy Dean, Art Gleeson)|

Casey Stengel lecturing Yankee players in 1951.

The 1951 New York Yankees season was the 49th season for the team. The team finished with a record of 98–56, winning their 18th pennant, finishing five games ahead of the Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they defeated the New York Giants in 6 games.

This year was noted for a "changing of the guard" for the Yankees, as it was Joe DiMaggio's final season and Mickey Mantle's first. The 1951 season also marked the first year of Bob Sheppard's long tenure as Yankee Stadium's public address announcer.

Offseason

Prior to 1951 season (exact date unknown)
- Jerry Lumpe was signed as an amateur free agent by the Yankees.
- Don Taussig was acquired from the Yankees by the New York Giants.

Regular season

April 17, 1951: Mickey Mantle makes his big league debut for the New York Yankees. The Yankees opponent is the Boston Red Sox.
May 1, 1951: Mickey Mantle hits his first major league home run. The game was played against the Chicago White Sox and the pitcher who gave up the home run was Randy Gumpert. The home run was in the sixth inning and was measured at 450 feet.
September 18, 1951: Allie Reynolds threw a no-hitter to clinch the American League pennant. It was the first time that a pitcher threw a no-hitter to clinch a pennant.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

May 14, 1951: Billy Johnson was traded by the Yankees to the St. Louis Cardinals for Don Bollweg and $15,000.

Roster

1951 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

	= Indicates team leader

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	141	547	161	.294	27	88
1B	125	262	75	.286	9	48
2B	121	362	90	.249	3	43
3B	103	313	84	.268	6	51
SS	144	540	148	.274	2	43
OF	120	420	118	.281	15	71
OF	116	415	109	.263	12	71
OF	118	348	103	.296	10	54

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
131	402	123	.306	14	63
96	341	91	.267	13	65
113	332	86	.259	10	49
56	168	50	.298	8	25
46	63	13	.206	2	4
51	58	15	.259	0	2
45	51	11	.216	2	8
18	51	14	.275	1	7
15	40	12	.300	0	4
12	28	6	.214	0	2
2	8	3	.375	0	0
3	5	1	.200	0	2
4	4	0	.000	0	0
1	2	0	.000	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
35	258.1	21	10	3.27	164
31	234.2	21	9	2.91	93
40	221.0	17	8	3.05	126
4	9.1	0	2	13.50	3

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
27	124.2	9	3	3.68	57
25	95.2	5	5	4.33	38
23	82.1	8	4	2.40	50
11	46.1	3	1	3.88	19
15	44.2	1	1	4.63	14
19	40.2	1	3	4.65	15
7	37.0	2	1	4.14	21
11	26.2	0	3	3.71	10
9	21.0	2	1	6.86	14

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
34	6	4	5	3.49	30
9	1	1	1	7.50	3
7	1	0	0	0.00	2
2	0	0	0	9.00	2
1	0	0	1	0.00	1
2	0	0	0	15.00	2

1951 World Series

Main article: 1951 World Series

AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL New York Giants (2)

	Game		Score		Date		Location		Attendance
1
2
3
4
5
6

Awards and honors

Yogi Berra, American League MVP
Phil Rizzuto, Babe Ruth Award All-Star Game
Yogi Berra - Starter

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Quincy, Norfolk, LaGrange, McAlester

Newark club folded, July 17, 1951

References

John Drebinger. (December 12, 1951). "DiMaggio Retires as Player but Expects to Remain in Yankee Organization". New York Times.
"Jerry Lumpe Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/taussdo01.shtml Don Taussig] at ''Baseball-Reference''
''Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures'', 2008 Edition, p. 142, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, {{ISBN. 978-0-451-22363-0
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsbi03.shtml Billy Johnson] at ''Baseball-Reference''
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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