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1952 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1952
misc	World Series champions
American League champions
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City
record
league_place	1st
owners	Dan Topping and Del Webb
general_managers	George Weiss
managers	Casey Stengel
television	WPIX
radio	WINS (AM)
(Mel Allen, Bill Crowley, Art Gleeson, Joe DiMaggio)

American League champions (Mel Allen, Bill Crowley, Art Gleeson, Joe DiMaggio) |}}

The 1952 New York Yankees season was the 50th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 95–59, winning their 19th pennant, finishing two games ahead of the Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games. This was their fourth consecutive World Series win, tying the record they had set during 1936–1939. It was also the first season that the Yankees aired their games exclusively on WPIX-TV, an arrangement that would last until the end of the 1998 season. The channel was also the home of the baseball Giants broadcasts from 1949; thus, it was the first time ever that the channel had broadcast both the AL and NL baseball teams from the city. In 2016, when WPIX resumed FTA broadcasts of Yankees games in association with the current cable broadcaster YES Network, the channel returned to being the sole FTA broadcaster for the city's MLB franchises, as it is also currently the FTA broadcaster for the New York Mets, the Yankees officially ended that partnership again in 2021.

Offseason

December 3, 1951: Rubén Gómez was drafted by the Yankees from the St. Jean Canadians in the 1951 minor league draft.
December 11, 1951: Joe DiMaggio retires from playing.

Regular season

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Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

June 1952: Rubén Gómez was released by the Yankees.
August 28, 1952: Jim Greengrass, Bob Marquis, Ernie Nevel, Johnny Schmitz and $35,000 were traded by the Yankees to the Cincinnati Reds for Ewell Blackwell.

Roster

1952 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team 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	142	534	146	.273	30	98
1B	122	428	120	.280	18	59
2B	109	363	97	.267	3	33
3B	152	555	146	.263	11	78
SS	152	578	147	.254	2	43
OF	142	549	171	.311	23	87
OF	141	553	162	.293	17	74
OF	122	408	126	.309	12	63

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
93	272	65	.235	5	21
78	137	36	.263	4	29
29	89	22	.247	1	14
36	87	21	.241	1	8
20	55	18	.327	0	11
11	42	17	.405	0	4
16	40	6	.150	0	1
42	38	10	.263	0	2
15	25	4	.160	0	2
13	23	1	.043	0	1
12	21	2	.095	0	0
7	19	2	.105	0	2
9	6	2	.333	0	0
3	2	1	.500	0	1
2	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

	= Indicates league leader

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	244.1	20	8	2.06	160
31	223.0	16	6	2.78	127
20	149.1	10	5	2.53	56
16	93.2	5	4	3.07	34

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
35	148.1	11	6	3.46	57
28	133.0	8	8	3.45	67
21	88.0	4	6	3.48	45
26	69.1	3	4	3.50	20
12	60.2	6	2	4.60	31
9	34.0	5	1	2.91	13
5	17.0	0	1	5.29	15
5	16.0	1	0	0.56	7
5	15.0	1	1	3.60	3

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
27	3	5	4	5.32	12
20	2	2	2	5.63	17
2	0	0	0	9.00	1

World series

Main article: 1952 World Series

AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL Brooklyn Dodgers (3)

	Game		Score		Date		Location		Attendance
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Awards and honors

Johnny Mize, Babe Ruth Award All-Star Game
Hank Bauer - Starter
Yogi Berra - Starter
Vic Raschi - Starter
Phil Rizzuto - Starter

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Kansas City, Binghamton, Joplin, McAlester

Notes

References

"Rubén Gómez Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More".
John Drebinger. (December 12, 1951). "DiMaggio Retires as Player but Expects to Remain in Yankee Organization". New York Times.
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/greenji02.shtml Jim Greengrass page 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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