New York Yankees News. Welcome to This Week In Yankees Baseball. With Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte receiving honors this week, we are reminded that the Yankees did something on August 25, 1996 that they had not done in nearly 50 years.
Quick, without touching google or reaching for your Yankees history book, tell me what that would be. Okay, here is your clue: Number 7.
That´s right. It was August 25, 1996 that the Yankees honored Mickey Mantle with a monument in Monument Park.