For a time, when the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers both left for California, the New York Yankees were the only MLB team in town. Then the NY Mets came along. They were managed by former Yankee manager Casey Stengel and although the team had a terrible first few years, the NY media paid allot of attention to the Mets and Casey. Many sports commentators believed the Yankees hired former baseball legend and former NY Yankee player to bring more of the "sports attention" back to the Yankees. Yogi had a great reputation & was a star player. He actually played for Casey Stengel when the Yanks before & after had that 5 World Series in a row record. So basically Yogi was hired for publicity reasons.
Former Yankee center fielder Kenny Lofton batted and threw left handed.
Luis Sojo
Billy Martin a former player for the New York Yankees was offered seventy five thousand dollars to manage the New York Yankee. Martin was available as he had just been fired by the Texas Rangers.
goose goosage went in the hall of fame as a Yankee but, rickey Henderson also played for the yanks
Yogi Berra is a former major league baseball player and manager. He played for the New York Yankees and managed the Yankees after his playing career ended.
Billy Martin was offered the job of managing the New York Yankees in 1975. This was after he had been released as the manager of the Texas Rangers. Billy had been a former Yankee in his playing days.
Paul O'Neill
The Scooter is an animated talking baseball used by Fox Sports to explain some simple baseball concepts to children. Fan reaction to the scooter was generally quite negative, similar to the reactions to other animated talking assistants like Microsoft's Clippy (the animated paper clip). Yankee shortstop (and later announcer) Phil Rizzuto was also called The Scooter. The nickname was used in Terry Cashman's Talking Baseball ("The Scooter, the Barber, and the Newc").
Joe DiMaggio.
Scott Brosius is currently the head baseball coach at Linfield College in Oregon.
Former Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott was born without a right hand.
Former Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte played for the Houston Astros from 2004-2006.