When I first started the Yankees’ complementary greats series, I didn’t expect such positive feedback. The way that some of those players brought back wonderful memories surprised me. It is easy for any single one of those players to get a little lost in the vast history of baseball, but it is important to take the time and look back at those marvelous careers.
That specific series with those standards gave me a lot of room to highlight all sorts of players in all sorts of generations, from Frank “Home Run” Baker’s early days before the Yankees became the Yankees, to the days of Didi Gregorius replacing Derek Jeter in 2015.