MLB records are a huge part of our collective baseball fandom, as there’s always nostalgia involved and conversations about trivia are among the sport’s most popular. Of course, when we’re dealing with a franchise like the Yankees, individual records have played a part in not just baseball history but in the shaping of society. Babe Ruth redefined how stadiums were built due to the records he was setting and four decades later Roger Maris would make history to an extent that a movie would be made about it.
Although when a baseball fan says “61” we all know what they’re referring to, what about single-season records in Yankee history that aren’t as glamorous as 61, or Gehrig’s 185 RBI, or Donnie Baseball’s 53 doubles?