As voted by ME!


26-time World Champions

Reading the Babe Ruth bio got me considering what an all-time Yankees team would be. I've seen lists like this before, but was never satisfied because weird exceptions were made, like putting Mickey Mantle in leftfield, even though he played center. I'm going to keep it real. No Mantle in left. No Mantle as DH either. My DH has to have actually DH'd in his career. Here are my choices:

C Yogi Berra* [HOF, 3 MVPs]
1B Lou Gehrig [HOF, 2 MVPs, Triple Crown 1934]
2B Tony Lazzeri [HOF, 7 100 RBI seasons, 7 pennants, 5 WS wins]
3B Alex Rodriguez** [2 MVPs, 10-time All-Star]
SS Derek Jeter ['96 ROY, MVP 2000 WS and All-Star game, 7-time All-Star]
LF Dave Winfield [HOF, 7 gold gloves, 12-time All-Star, 1833 RBI]
CF Joe DiMaggio [HOF, 56-game hitting streak, 13-time All-Star, 3 MVPs]
RF Babe Ruth [HOF, 714 career homeruns]
DH Reggie Jackson [HOF, 14-time All-Star]

SP Ron Guidry L [3-time 20 game winner, '78 Cy Young, 4-time All-Star]
SP Whitey Ford L [HOF, 2-time 20 game winner, '61 Cy Young, .690 career winning pct., 8-time All-Star]
SP Herb Pennock L [HOF, 2-time 20 game winner]
SP Red Ruffing R [HOF, 4-time 20 game winner, 6-time All-Star]
SP Jack Chesbro R [HOF, 41-game winner in 1904, career 2.68 ERA]

Closer Mariano Rivera [8-time All-Star, '99 WS MVP, 413 SVs, post season-34 SVs, 0.80 ERA]

Manager Casey Stengel [HOF, 10 pennants, 7 World Championships]

*Tough choice. Bill Dickey had a great career, and was part of the '27 Murderers' Row Yankees, for which he hit .322. He was on 8 pennant winners and 7 WS winners. But Berra won 14 pennants, 10 World Series, and 3 MVPs.

**I originally had Graig Nettles pencilled in for thirdbase. ARod has only played three seasons for the Yanks, hasn't been too productive in the post season, and hasn't been consistent in the field. Nettles, on the other hand, could turn a game around with his glove (see Game 3 of '78 WS), led the A.L. in homers in '76, hit 390 career HRs, and was the captain of the team for a while. But ARod will challenge most career hitting records before he's through.