Yankee4Life

That's a nice goal to shoot for. I hope you get it.

That's a good Longhorn sig. I really like it.

I love Kerry's work. Great job on Donut's sig.

Aw man. And I had plans for ten sigs, each connecting with each other to combine and make one huge sig.

Mickey Mantle Boys across America in the 1950's looked to Mantle as a hero and he did not let them down. A member of five Yankee champions in the 50's, Mantle was the successor to Joe Dimaggio in centerfield in New York. Mantle was racked by injuries for his entire career, but that did not stop him from hitting 536 homeruns and going to the Hall of Fame. Mickey Mantle rates as one of the greatest players in baseball history; he was the greatest switch-hitter the game has ever known. Mantle led the league 27 times in various batting titles. He led the league in home runs in four different years, he won six runs scored crowns, four times he led the league in walks, Mantle won three slugging titles, he led the league in batting average and RBI's in 1956. Mickey Mantle, was a popular and well-regarded ballplayer and he won the Most Valuable Player Awards in 1956, 1957, and again in 1962. He is the only switch-hitter to win the Triple Crown, accomplishing this in 1956 when he clubbed 52 home runs, batted .353 and had 130 RBI's. Mantle is one of only three Triple Crown Winners who also won a Gold Glove Award. Mantle was one of the greatest fielding centerfielders of all-time. He was a league leading centerfielder in four different seasons. Mantle, when batting left-handed was timed running from home-plate to first base in 3.1 seconds (the fastest time of any player in history), this is incredible feat. Mickey Mantle is the greatest late inning clutch hitter that ever played. He led the New York Yankees to twelve pennants and seven times the Yankees won the World Championship. If the Yankees were tied or losing the game in the late innings, Mantle would somehow come to their rescue with his late inning heroics. He was the most feared hitter in his time; smashing late inning bases loaded doubles or by hitting a game winning home run. If Mickey Mantle and the Yankees were playing your team; no lead was safe. Mantle was "the Destroyer of Dreams", with his blinding speed and potent hitting. This Hall of Famer holds seven world series records including most home runs with 18, most runs scored with 42, most RBI's - 40 and most total bases with 123. (these records in his world series play are better than a lot of players get for a full season).

Now don't I have a great sig now? Thanks Trues. Look at JETER!!! He's the best.

Oh, that's a beauty.

Mine looks ok on my end.

That is a beautiful sig you made Kerry.

Thank you for asking, but not right now. I'm looking around for the right pictures for my sig so that's why I was putting it off.

I like the big NY in Moose's sig on the lower left of the sig. Looks great. Then of course, I'm biased.

No problem. Hey, you never know where this can lead to. Graphics artists make good money if you can get a job doing that.

Yes, I see what you mean. Heck, if you got this last summer you haven't even had this a year yet and you've made graphical advances. The Soriano one wasn't bad and it still isn't, but you can tell the quality of work from then up to now. If I had the time, and I don't sorry to say, I would go back in that first sig thread that has over 130 pages and look at the progression of the graphics on the sigs as the pages start to pile up. I really believe the sigs, sig work and sig creators are just as important in here as the people who do rosters or mods.

Kerry, I got a quick question for you because I know you are busy with this stuff. How long have you practiced on this program to perfect your skill? The sig part of this forum is the most popular thread in here thanks to you and your friends making this stuff. I enjoy looking at them.

Bobby Shantz Bobby Shantz was a crafty lefthanded pitcher that played in the major leagues for 16 seasons on eight different teams. His best year was in 1952 when he was the American League's Most Valueable Player for the Philadelphia Athletics. He went 24 - 7 with a 2.48 ERA for a team that only finished four games over .500 About Shantz The 5'6" 139-lb Shantz broke in spectacularly, winning a 13-inning game in relief, pitching nine hitless innings along the way while giving up one run and two hits overall. He was handicapped by manager Connie Mack, a former catcher who wouldn't let Shantz use his knuckleball and was predisposed against small pitchers. When Mack finally retired after the 1950 season, Jimmy Dykes took over the club and gave the little lefthander more rest between starts; Shantz blossomed. Finally allowed to use his knuckler, and with a curveball that Ted Williams called the best in the AL, Shantz learned to change speeds and went 18-10 for the 70-84 Athletics. Shantz reached the peak of his career in 1952, going 24-7 for a fifth-place team to win the MVP award in a landslide. He led the AL in wins, winning percentage, and fewest walks per game (2.03), and finished third with a 2.48 ERA and 152 strikeouts, tied for third with five shutouts, second with 27 complete games, fourth with 255 innings, and fifth in fewest hits per game (7.39). Plagued by injuries for most of the next four seasons, Shantz went to the Yankees in a 12-player deal before the 1957 season and made a great comeback that year, leading the AL with a 2.45 ERA while going 11-5. After that, he was used more frequently in relief, and contributed 11 saves to the 1960 pennant winners before being traded to the Pirates, who had defeated New York in the World Series; Shantz saved Game Two for the Yankees. He bounced around the NL after that, effective until his last year. Shantz won Gold Gloves in the first four years of the award (1957-60). His brother Billy was a catcher for the A's in 1954-55 and in one game for the 1960 Yankees.

Herb Pennock Herb Pennock was born on Saturday, February 10, 1894, and began his Major League baseball career on May 14, 1912, with the Philadelphia Athletics. The 18 year-old played for 22 seasons on 3 different teams and ended his big league playing career in 1934. The highlight of Pennock's career was being a member of the 1927 Yankees, a team considered the greatest of all time. Pennock that year was 19 - 8 with a 3.00 ERA. Pennock was called the "Knight of Kennett Square" because he hailed from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. About Pennock Every great team has a strong mix of hitting and pitching. The 1927 New York Yankees had "Murderer’s Row" of Ruth, Gehrig, and company to provide offensive explosions. The pitching staff was just as instrumental in the team’s success. The staff was anchored by left-handed journeyman, Herb Pennock. When the Yankees traded for Pennock in 1923, they figured to get a few solid starts out of the ten-year veteran. What they got was an ace that would perform brilliantly for ten more seasons and compile a perfect 5-0 World Series record. When all was said and done and his career ended in 1934, Pennock tallied a 240-162 record and completed an astounding 247 games. In 1948, Herb Pennock joined many of his Yankee teammates in Cooperstown with his election to baseball's Hall of Fame. Fast Facts Name: Herbert Jefferis Pennock Born: February 19, 1894 Kennett Square, PA Died: January 30, 1948 Batted: Both Threw: Left Position: Pitcher Pitcher for Philadelphia Athletics 1912-15 Boston Red Sox 1915-22 and 1934 New York Yankees 1923-33 Earned 33 career saves Compiled a perfect 5-0 record in World Series Play Had a league-leading . 760 winning percentage in 1923 Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1948. Led the league in innings pitched in 1925 Logged 247 complete games in his career

What does that have to do with this thread?

Billy Herman Billy Herman played on pennant winners in the 30's for the Chicago Cubs and in the 40's for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Manager Leo Durocher called Herman the final piece to the puzzle in 1941 for Brooklyn when he acquired Herman in a trade that year. Durocher proved to be right as the Dodgers won their first pennant that year in twenty-one years. About Herman One of the best hitting second baseman in history, Herman spent nearly four years in the minor leagues before being purchased by the NL's Chicago Cubs late in the 1931 season. He became a starter in 1932. Although he wasn't fast, his reflexes and lateral quickness gave him great defensive ability. He led NL second baseman in putouts a record 7 times, in assists 3 times, and in fielding percentage 3 times. He batted .314 in his first full season, collecting 206 hits and 102 runs to help lead the Cubs to a pennant. However, they lost the World Series in four games to the New York Yankees. After slipping to .279 in 1933, he hit over .300 the next 4 seasons, leading the league with 227 hits and 57 doubles in 1935, when the Cubs again won the pennant. Herman batted .333 against the Detroit Tigers in the World Series, but the Cubs again lost. They won another pennant in 1938, again losing to the Yankees in the series, when Herman hit only .188. He led the NL in triples with 18 in 1939, then was traded early in the 1941 season to the Brooklyn Dodgers, where he played on another pennant-winner but batted just .125 in a five-game World Series loss to the Yankees. After serving in the Navy in 1944 and 1945, Herman returned to the Dodgers in 1946. He was traded during the season to the Boston Braves and in 1947 he became manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, appearing in only 15 games. He was fired the day before the last game of the season. Herman managed in the minor leagues and coached in the majors for several years before becoming manager of the AL's Boston Red Sox for the last two games of 1964. He was replaced late in the 1966 season.

Joseph Jefferson Jackson (Shoeless Joe) It's been written that the great Babe Ruth copied Joe Jackson's swing when he came up to the major leagues. Ruth, of course, at the time was a pitcher and he knew a good hitter when he saw one. Joe Jackson was more than a good hitter, he was a superstar. His career batting average of .356 is third highest in baseball history. Jackson is not in Baseball's Hall of Fame due to his supposed involvement in the fixing of the 1919 World Series, a fact that has never been proven to this day. For more information on Shoeless Joe, go to this site: http://www.blackbetsy.com/

WhoisKarimGarcia, and tie_dyed_sox, you both put in some very good names. Great job. :)

Tommy Henrich An Ohio native of German descent, Henrich was a key player on the great Yankee teams of the 1940s. Mel Allen, the Yankee broadcaster, gave him the nickname "Old Reliable" for his ability to come through in clutch situations. The outfield he played in for the Yankees in the late 40s (Henrich, Joe DiMaggio, and Charlie Keller) is considered one of the great outfields of all time. Along with Joe DiMaggio and Charlie Keller, Henrich formed one of baseball's most acclaimed outfields for the Yankees before and after WWII. Commissioner Landis ruled Henrich a free agent in April 1937 after he had been illegally hidden in the Indians' farm system, and he signed with the Yankees, hitting .320 as a part-timer. He helped the team to six pennants, and although he played in only four WS because of injury and military service, he was a key figure in two of the most famous Series games. In 1941, he was the man whose third strike skipped past Mickey Owen, leading to a legendary Yankee rally. In 1949 he homered off Don Newcombe in the ninth inning of the first game to give Allie Reynolds a 1-0 victory. An excellent fielder, Henrich lived up to his "Old Reliable" nickname with his bat, hitting 22 homers in 1938 and 31 in 1941. After the war, he had his greatest season statistically in 1948, leading the AL in triples and runs scored, and batting .308 with 25 homers and 100 RBI. But he was probably more valuable in 1949, when his consistent clutch hitting helped keep the injury-racked Yankees in the pennant race. In 115 games, he hit 24 homers, batted in 85, and scored 90. He finished sixth in the MVP voting.

Charlie Gehringer Detroit Tiger second baseman. Gehringer was the heart and soul of the Tigers in the 1930's leading them to two pennants and one World Championship. The best second baseman in baseball during the 1930s, Charlie Gehringer led his league in assists seven times, and nine times in fielding average. At the plate he topped .300 13 times and won the 1937 Most Valuable Player Award when he paced the American League with a .371 average. He was no punch and judy hitter either - seven times he drove in 100 runs. He was so automatic that he was dubbed the "Mechanical Man." With Hank Greenberg and Goose Goslin, Gehringer formed the vaunted Detroit "G-Men" attack of the 1930s. With Gehringer, the Tigers won three pennants in seven years and their first World Series title in 1935. In that World Series, Gehringer scored the winning run. Nicknames "The Mechanical Man," which was stuck on him by Yankee pitcher Lefty Gomez, who said Gehringer was automatic. "You can wind him up in the spring and he'll hit .320 with 40 doubles," Gomez said.

Wait a second, NYM. It doesn't matter where you got the information from. I've been going all over the place on the net getting my information on the players I've posted about. Some at the Hall of fame site, some from newspapers, etc. It doesn't matter where you get it from. You did the legwork for the entire site to fill them in on who Gary Carter and Sandy Koufax is. If anyone wants to learn more about them, they can do their own search. Thank you for your contributions NYM91.

Bob Fothergill. I'm not sure if there are any Tiger fans in here, but this guy was someone that they may have heard about. For his entire twelve year career in the American League, his biggest struggle was with his weight and not the American League pitchers. His 12 year average was .325. Bob Fothergill Fothergill was an outstanding line-drive hitter more famous for his girth than his hits. Charitably listed at 230, the 5'10" outfielder was sensitive about his size and preferred Bob or Roy (his middle name) to Fat. The stories were told in every dugout: Leo Durocher once complained it was illegal to have two men in the batter's box; during a crash fasting program, Fothergill supposedly bit an umpire after a called third strike; there were several accounts of his shattering outfield fences in pursuit of fly balls. But he could hit. In 1927, his top year, he batted .359 with 114 RBI for the Tigers. Eventually relegated to pinch hitting, he led the AL with 19 in 1929. Of those with more than 200 pinch-hit at-bats, only Fothergill has posted a .300 career average.

NYM91, you've got the hang of it my friend. Two good players you put up there. :)