The New York Yankees continued to sell tickets and smash
records in the 2000’s and on this day in 2006 the stadium in the Bronx saw its
4,000,000th fan enter the ballpark. This marked the second
consecutive season that New York surpassed 4,000,000 fans in one season. The
Yankees and the 1991-1993 Toronto Blue Jays are the only teams in major league
history with 4,000,000 plus fans in more than one season.
Also on this day in 1998 the Yankees won their seventh
straight game to end the 1998 season 114-48. The Yankees .704 winning
percentage marked the first time a team finished a season with over a .700
winning percentage since the 1954 Indians who went 111-43.
Finally on this day in 1938 we finish on a somber note as
Lou Gehrig would hit his 493rd and final home run of his career.
Gehrig’s home run came off Dutch Leonard of the Washington Senators. It is also
worth mentioning that one this day 15 years earlier Gehrig hit his first home
run of his major league career off the Red Sox Bill Piercy.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)