The New York Yankees

New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

 season was the 20th season for the Yankees in New York and their 22nd overall. The team finished with a record of 94 wins and 60 losses, to win their second pennant in franchise history, by a single game over the St. Louis Browns

1922 St. Louis Browns season

The St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Browns winning 93 games, the only time in franchise history that the Browns topped the 90 win plateau. In the American League standings, the Browns finished in second place behind the New York Yankees. The Browns set a...

. New York was managed by Miller Huggins

Miller Huggins

Miller James Huggins , nicknamed "Mighty Mite", was a baseball player and manager. He managed the powerhouse New York Yankee teams of the 1920s and won six American League pennants and three World Series championships....

. Their home games were played at the Polo Grounds

Polo Grounds

The Polo Grounds was the name given to four different stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used by many professional teams in both baseball and American football from 1880 until 1963...

.

In the 1922 World Series

1922 World Series

In the 1922 World Series, the New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in five games...

, the Yankees again lost to their landlords, the New York Giants

1922 New York Giants season

- Roster:- Starters by position:Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in-Other batters:Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg...

, 4 games to none with one tied game. The final game of the Series was also the Yankees' final game as a tenant in the Polo Grounds

Polo Grounds

The Polo Grounds was the name given to four different stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used by many professional teams in both baseball and American football from 1880 until 1963...

. During the season, they had begun construction of their new home, Yankee Stadium, which would open in 1923.

Regular season

The Yankees started the season without their star, Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

George Herman Ruth, Jr. , best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935...

, who was serving a suspension due to breaking the rule (along with several other Yankees) against World Series participants barnstorming. Although Commissioner Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death...

 refused to back down on his enforcement of the rule, he did repeal the seemingly absurd rule by the end of the 1922 season.

Roster

1922 New York Yankees
Roster
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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
C		124	408	130	.319	1	53
1B		152	577	190	.329	9	90
2B		154	558	149	.267	7	68
3B		69	234	65	.278	7	36
SS		154	557	150	.269	3	45
OF		121	473	151	.319	16	84
OF		110	406	128	.315	35	99
OF		140	528	157	.297	4	40

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
	60	252	72	.286	3	25
	51	172	46	.267	3	18
	52	143	36	.252	0	18
	44	132	32	.242	1	19
	37	91	27	.297	2	10
	33	78	20	.256	0	11
	24	59	12	.203	0	11
	21	27	5	.185	1	5
	27	33	6	.182	0	2
	4	4	0	.000	0	0

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
	39	299.7	20	12	2.91	130
	37	265	19	12	3.43	95
	39	255.3	26	7	3.31	92
	34	240	12	14	3.60	41

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
	45	260	13	13	3.67	81

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
	22	4	2	0	3.97	14
	6	0	0	0	3.38	5
	1	0	0	0	0.00	0

World series

Game	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Score	Record (NYY-NYG)	Attendance
1	October 4	New York Yankees	2	New York Giants 1922 New York Giants season - Roster:- Starters by position:Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in-Other batters:Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg...	3	0-1-0	42,479
2	October 5	New York Giants	3	New York Yankees	3	0-1-1	37,020
3	October 6	New York Yankees	0	New York Giants	3	0-2-1	37,620
4	October 7 ‡	New York Giants	4	New York Yankees	3	0-3-1	36,242
5	October 8 ‡	New York Yankees	3	New York Giants	5	0-4-1	38,551
New York Giants win 4-0-1

Farm system