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The New York Yankees are a Major League Baseball team based in The Bronx, New York. The team competes as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Established in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the modern Baltimore Orioles), the team relocated to New York in 1903 as the New York Highlanders, they officially renamed to their current name in 1913.
A total of 61 players, managers, and executives (24 of whom are inducted as Yankees) in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, plus seven broadcasters who have received the Hall's Ford C. Frick Award, spent part or all of their professional careers with the Yankees.
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Player | Years with Yankees | Role(s) with Yankees | Inducted as | Year inducted | Vote% | Ballot or Election type |
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Home Run Baker | 1916–1919, 1921–1922 | Player | Player | 1955 | Veteran's Committee | |
Ed Barrow | 1920–1945 | Executive | Executive | 1953 | Veteran's Committee | |
Yogi Berra † | 1946–1964, 1984–1985 | Player, coach, manager | Player | 1972 | 85.61% | 2nd Ballot |
Wade Boggs | 1993–1997 | Player | Player | 2005 | 91.9% | 1st Ballot |
Roger Bresnahan | 1901–1902 | Player | Player | 1945 | Veterans Committee | |
Frank Chance | 1913–1914 | Player | Player | 1946 | Veterans Committee | |
Jack Chesbro † | 1903–1909 | Player | Player | 1946 | Veterans Committee | |
Earle Combs † | 1924–1935 | Player | Player | 1970 | Veterans Committee | |
Stan Coveleski | 1928 | Player | Player | 1969 | Veterans Committee | |
Bobby Cox | 1968–1969, 1977 | Player, coach | Manager | 2014 | 100% | Expansion Era Committee |
Bill Dickey † | 1928–1943, 1946 | Player | Player | 1954 | 80.16% | 7th Ballot |
Joe DiMaggio † | 1936–1942, 1946–1951 | Player | Player | 1955 | 88.84% | 3rd Ballot |
Leo Durocher | 1925, 1928–1929 | Player | Manager | 1994 | Veterans Committee | |
Whitey Ford † | 1950, 1953–1967 | Player | Player | 1974 | 77.81% | 2nd Ballot |
Lou Gehrig † | 1923–1939 | Player | Player | 1939 | Special Election | |
Lefty Gomez † | 1930–1942 | Player | Player | 1972 | Veteran's Committee | |
Joe Gordon † | 1938–1946 | Player | Player | 2009 | 83.3% | Veteran's Committee |
Goose Gossage † | 1978–1983 | Player | Player | 2008 | 85.8% | 9th Ballot |
Clark Griffith | 1903–1907 | Player | Executive | 1946 | Veteran's Committee | |
Burleigh Grimes | 1934 | Player | Player | 1964 | Veteran's Committee | |
Bucky Harris | 1947–1948 | Manager | Manager | 1975 | Veteran's Committee | |
Rickey Henderson | 1985–1989 | Player | Player | 2009 | 94.8% | 1st Ballot |
Waite Hoyt † | 1921–1930 | Player | Player | 1969 | Veteran's Committee | |
Miller Huggins † | 1918–1929 | Manager | Manager | 1964 | Veteran's Committee | |
Catfish Hunter | 1975-1979 | Player | Player | 1987 | 76.27% | 3rd Ballot |
Reggie Jackson † | 1977–1981 | Player | Player | 1993 | 93.6% | 1st Ballot |
Derek Jeter † | 1995–2014 | Player | Player | 2020 | 99.75% | 1st Ballot |
Randy Johnson | 2005–2006 | Player | Player | 2015 | 97.3% | 1st Ballot |
Willie Keeler | 1903–1909 | Player | Player | 1939 | 75.5% | 4th Ballot |
Tony Lazzeri † | 1926–1937 | Player | Player | 1991 | Veterans Committee | |
Bob Lemon | 1978–1979, 1981–1982 | Manager | Player | 1976 | 78.61% | 12th Ballot |
Larry MacPhail | 1945–1947 | Executive | Executive | 1978 | Veterans Committee | |
Lee MacPhail | 1966–1974 | Executive | Executive | 1998 | Veterans Committee | |
Mickey Mantle † | 1951–1968 | Player | Player | 1974 | 88.2% | 1st Ballot |
Joe McCarthy † | 1931–1946 | Manager | Manager | 1957 | Veterans Committee | |
Joe McGinnity | 1901–1902 | Player | Player | 1946 | Veterans Committee | |
John McGraw | 1901–1902 | Player | Manager | 1937 | Veterans Committee | |
Bill McKechnie | 1913 | Player | Player | 1962 | Veterans Committee | |
Johnny Mize | 1949–1953 | Player | Player | 1981 | Veterans Committee | |
Mike Mussina | 2001–2008 | Player | Player | 2019 | 76.7% | 6th Ballot |
Phil Niekro | 1984–1985 | Player | Player | 1997 | 80.34% | 5th Ballot |
Herb Pennock † | 1923–1933 | Player | Player | 1948 | 77.69% | 8th Ballot |
Gaylord Perry | 1980 | Player | Player | 1991 | 77.2% | 3rd Ballot |
Tim Raines | 1996–1998 | Player | Player | 2017 | 86.0% | 10th Ballot |
Branch Rickey | 1907 | Player | Executive | 1967 | Veterans Committee | |
Mariano Rivera † | 1995–2013 | Player | Player | 2019 | 100.00% | 1st Ballot |
Phil Rizzuto † | 1941–1942, 1946–1956 | Player | Player | 1994 | Veterans Committee | |
Wilbert Robinson | 1901–1902 | Player, manager | Manager | 1945 | Veterans Committee | |
Iván Rodríguez | 2008 | Player | Player | 2017 | 76% | 1st Ballot |
Red Ruffing † | 1930–1942, 1945–1946 | Player | Player | 1967 | 86.93% | 15th Ballot |
Jacob Ruppert | 1915–1939 | Executive | Executive | 2013 | 93.8% | Pre-Integration Era Committee |
Babe Ruth † | 1920–1934 | Player | Player | 1936 | 95.13% | 1st Ballot (inaugural) |
Joe Sewell | 1931–1933 | Player | Player | 1977 | Veterans Committee | |
Enos Slaughter | 1954–1959 | Player | Player | 1985 | Veterans Committee | |
Lee Smith | 1993 | Player | Player | 2019 | 100% | Today's Game Committee |
Casey Stengel † | 1949–1960 | Manager | Manager | 1966 | Veterans Committee | |
Joe Torre † | 1996–2007 | Manager | Manager | 2014 | 100% | Expansion Era Committee |
Dazzy Vance | 1915, 1918 | Player | Player | 1955 | 81.7% | 16th Ballot |
Paul Waner | 1944–1945 | Player | Player | 1952 | 83.33% | 5th Ballot |
George Weiss | 1947–1960 | Executive | Executive | 1977 | Veterans Committee | |
Dave Winfield | 1981–1988, 1990 | Player | Player | 2001 | 84.5% | 1st Ballot |
The Frick Award, according to the Hall, "is presented annually to a broadcaster for 'major contributions to baseball.' " [1] The Hall explicitly states that Frick honorees are not members of the Hall. [1]
Broadcaster | Years with Yankees | Year of award |
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Mel Allen | 1939–1964 | 1978 |
Red Barber | 1954–1966 | 1978 |
Jerry Coleman | 1949–1957 | 2005 |
Joe Garagiola | 1965–1967 | 1991 |
Curt Gowdy | 1949–1950 | 1984 |
Ken Harrelson | 1987–1988 | 2020 |
Al Helfer | 1937–1938, 1945 | 2019 |
Russ Hodges | 1946–1948 | 1980 |
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