1926 New York Yankees season

The 1926 New York Yankees season was the team's 24th season. The team finished with a record of 91–63, winning their fourth pennant, finishing three games ahead of the Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Miller Huggins. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they lost in 7 games to the St. Louis Cardinals, with the series ending with Babe Ruth being caught stealing second in the bottom of the 9th inning in Game 7.

1926 New York Yankees
1926 American League Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
OwnersJacob Ruppert
General managersEd Barrow
ManagersMiller Huggins
Local televisionnone
Local radionone
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Regular season
The 1926 New York Yankees

Season standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 9163 0.591 — 50–25 41–38
Cleveland Indians 8866 0.571 3 49–31 39–35
Philadelphia Athletics 8367 0.553 6 44–27 39–40
Washington Senators 8169 0.540 8 42–30 39–39
Chicago White Sox 8172 0.529 9½ 47–31 34–41
Detroit Tigers 7975 0.513 12 39–41 40–34
St. Louis Browns 6292 0.403 29 40–39 22–53
Boston Red Sox 46107 0.301 44½ 25–51 21–56

Record vs. opponents
1926 American League record

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH
Boston —6–166–167–155–178–1411–11–13–18
Chicago 16–6—13–914–8–28–146–1513–911–11
Cleveland 16–69–13—11–1111–1114–811–1116–6
Detroit 15–78–14–211–11—10–1211–1112–1012–10–1
New York 17–514–811–1112–10—9–1316–612–10–1
Philadelphia 14–815–68–1411–1113–9—15–77–12
St. Louis 11–11–19–1311–1110–126–167–15—8–14
Washington 18–311–116–1610–12–110–12–112–714–8—

Roster
1926 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Coaches

Player stats

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 Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CPat Collins10229083.286735
1BLou Gehrig155572179.31316112
2BTony Lazzeri155589162.27518114
3BJoe Dugan123484125.288164
SSMark Koenig147617167.271562
OFBabe Ruth152495184.37247150
OFEarle Combs145606113.299855
OFBob Meusel108415130.3151281

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Ben Paschal9625874.287732
Mike Gazella6616839.232020
Hank Severeid4112734.268013
Benny Bengough368432.388014
Roy Carlyle355220.381011
Aaron Ward223110.32303
Spencer Adams28253.12001
Bill Skiff6111.09100
Nick Cullop221.50000
Fred Merkle120.00000
Honey Barnes100----00
Kiddo Davis100----00

Starting pitchers

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

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Herb Pennock40266.123113.6278
Urban Shocker41258.219113.3859
Waite Hoyt40217.216123.8579
Dutch Ruether536.0233.508

Other pitchers

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

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Sam Jones39161.0984.9869
Myles Thomas33140.1664.2338
Bob Shawkey29104.1873.6263
Walter Beall2081.2243.5356

Relief pitchers

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

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Garland Braxton375122.6730
Herb McQuaid171006.106
Hank Johnson100118.000

1926 World Series
Main article: 1926 World Series
Game Date Visitor Score Home Score Record

(NYY-STL)

 Attendance
1 October 2 St. Louis Cardinals 1 New York Yankees 2 1–0 61,658
2 October 3 St. Louis Cardinals 6 New York Yankees 2 1–1 63,600
3 October 5 New York Yankees 0 St. Louis Cardinals 4 1–2 37,708
4 October 6 New York Yankees 10 St. Louis Cardinals 5 2–2 38,825
5 October 7 New York Yankees 3 St. Louis Cardinals 2 3–2 39,552
6 October 9 St. Louis Cardinals 10 New York Yankees 2 3–3 48,615
7 October 10 St. Louis Cardinals 3 New York Yankees 2 3–4 38,093
St. Louis Cardinals win 4–3

References
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