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1964 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1964
misc	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	Ralph Houk
managers	Yogi Berra
television	WPIX
(Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman)
radio	WCBS (AM)
(Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman)

(Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman) (Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman) |}} The 1964 New York Yankees season was the 62nd season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 99–63, winning their 29th pennant, finishing 1 game ahead of the Chicago White Sox. New York was managed by Yogi Berra. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they were defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals in 7 games. It would also be their last postseason appearance until 1976.

Yogi Berra, taking over as manager from Ralph Houk, who in turn moved up to general manager, had a difficult early season, with many veterans missing games due to injury. Doubts about his ability to manage his former teammates were brought into the open with the Harmonica Incident in late August, in which he clashed with utility infielder Phil Linz on the team bus following a sweep by the Chicago White Sox that appeared to have removed the Yankees from pennant contention. The team rallied behind Berra afterwards, and won the pennant. However the incident may have convinced the team's executives to replace Berra with Johnny Keane, manager of the victorious Cardinals, after the season.

This season is considered to be the endpoint of the "Old Yankees" dynasty that had begun with the Ruppert–Huston partnership and then continued with the Topping–Webb partnership. The Yankees would soon undergo ownership changes and front office turmoil, and would not be a serious factor in the pennant chase again until the mid-1970s. For television viewers and radio listeners, the sudden removal of Mel Allen following that season marked the end of an era of Yankees television and radio broadcasts.

Offseason

November 30, 1963: Marshall Bridges was purchased from the Yankees by the Washington Senators.

Regular season

On September 26, Mel Stottlemyre went 5 for 5, drove in two runs, and threw a two-hit shutout.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

September 5, 1964: The Yankees traded players to be named later and $75,000 to the Cleveland Indians for Pedro Ramos. The Yankees completed the trade by sending Ralph Terry to the Indians on October 21 and Bud Daley to the Indians on November 27.

Roster

1964 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; R = Runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases

Pos	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB
C	150	550	63	172	.313	15	84	1
1B	160	613	71	154	.251	28	100	2
2B	159	679	90	181	.267	4	50	11
3B	147	510	43	111	.218	8	52	6
SS	106	415	46	95	.229	8	31	4
LF	153	533	75	131	.246	16	73	13
CF	143	465	92	141	.303	35	111	6
RF	141	513	86	144	.281	26	71	3

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
112	368	92	.250	5	25
127	285	74	.260	10	34
77	161	41	.255	7	28
80	112	31	.277	0	5
31	23	4	.174	0	1
3	6	1	.167	0	0
1	6	2	.333	0	0
4	5	1	.200	0	0
5	5	0	.000	0	0
11	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
38	271.1	18	13	3.02	125
39	244.2	17	6	2.13	172
37	244.0	13	8	3.47	217
13	96.0	9	3	2.06	49

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	114.0	7	11	4.54	77
19	102.1	5	2	3.61	57
21	82.0	1	5	3.84	54
13	35.0	3	2	4.63	16

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
50	7	4	12	3.56	63
41	6	4	9	3.12	38
31	5	0	4	2.67	39
30	7	2	3	3.28	49
13	1	0	8	1.25	21
7	0	3	0	4.91	12

1964 World Series

Main article: 1964 World Series

With this 4–3 World Series victory, the Cardinals gained a 3–2 edge in overall Series wins over the Yankees, the first time any team had an overall edge against the Yankees since the 1920s. As of 2022, the Cardinals remain the only one of the "classic eight" National League teams to hold an edge over the Yankees.

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance	Time of game
1	Yankees – 5, Cardinals – 9	October 7	Busch Stadium I	30,805	2:42
2	Yankees – 8, Cardinals – 3	October 8	Busch Stadium I	30,805	2:29
3	Cardinals – 1, Yankees – 2	October 10	Yankee Stadium	67,101	2:16
4	Cardinals – 4, Yankees – 3	October 11	Yankee Stadium	66,312	2:18
5	Cardinals – 5, Yankees – 2	October 12	Yankee Stadium	65,633	2:37
6	Yankees – 8, Cardinals – 3	October 14	Busch Stadium I	30,805	2:37
7	Yankees – 5, Cardinals – 7	October 15	Busch Stadium I	30,346	2:40

Awards and honors

Elston Howard, Gold Glove
1964 MLB All-Star Game
- Whitey Ford, All-Star Game
- Elston Howard, All-Star Game
- Mickey Mantle, All-Star Game
- Joe Pepitone, All-Star Game
- Bobby Richardson, All-Star Game

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Fort Lauderdale, Johnson City

Notes

References

"Marshall Bridges Stats - Baseball-Reference.com".
(2008). "Yankee for Life". Harper Collins.
"Mel Stottlemyre's 5-hit game at retrosheet.org".
"Pedro Ramos Stats - Baseball-Reference.com".
"1964 New York Yankees Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com".
"1964 All-Star Game".
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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