A good friend of mine, a printer by profession, came across a team photograph of the 1928 Yankees, shot during spring training that year in St. Petersburg, Fla. Knowing my love for baseball in general and the Yankees in particular, he gave me a press sheet of the picture for display in my downstairs Yankee Room. I’m not sure if I adequately expressed my gratitude, because all I could say upon receipt was “Holy @#&*,” over and over and over, but as soon as I get it framed it will be prominent in my personal shrine.
That 1928 team is essentially made up of the players on the legendary 1927 Yankees, the Murderers’ Row team generally accepted as the greatest team in baseball history. With Babe Ruth (60 home runs, 164 RBIs, .356 average) and Lou Gehrig (47/175/.373) leading the way, the Yanks rolled to a 110-44 record, won the American League by 19 games and swept the Pirates in the World Series. Ruth’s 60 homers not only led the league and set a single-season record (that the Babe had set himself at 59 in 1920), more than any AL team had in 1927.
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