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Bill Skowron, Slugger Who Helped Yankees Win 7 Pennants, Dies at 81
Moose, hit 211 home runs in 14 major league seasons. He batted .300 five times as a Yankee. Playing for Casey Stengel and Ralph Houk on Yankees teams that won four World Series championships, Skowron was a right-handed power-hitting presence complementing from The New York Times Read more »
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PSA HoF- King Kong's Might and Center Field Greats
for the pros when he came back to the Yankees. Realizing that he needed Murcer's potent lefthanded bat in the lineup, manager Ralph Houk made Murcer an outfielder, and he hit 26 homers in his first full season, totaling a 118 wRC+. Murcer moved from right from Pinstripe Alley Read more »
