This Sunday: Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium

Mark your calendar, this Sunday the annual New York Yankee tradition continues as the Yanks take on the Orioles on Old-Timers’ Day

At Crane’s Mill, it’s no secret that we’re big New York Yankee fans. This Sunday, June 22, is one of our favorite days of the year—the annual Old Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium.

On this one nostalgic afternoon, great players in Bronx Bomber history come together for a special day including the pomp and circumstance of the grand introductions and of course, the Old Timers’ Day Game itself.

Through the years, there have been so many extraordinary players that have donned the pinstripes—from legends like Yogi Berra, Don Larsen, and Whitey Ford to 1970’s favorites “Goose” Gossage, Reggie Jackson, and Ron Guidry, to newer retirees Bernie Williams and Paul O’Neil, every Yankee fan is bound to have a personal favorite or two in the lineup.

After the festivities, we get to enjoy our team against the AL East rivals the Baltimore Orioles. In a piece of ironic baseball history that you may not know, the New York Yankees actually began their run in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles. They moved to New York two years later and became the New York Highlanders, eventually changing their name to the Yankees in 1913—taken from the team’s nickname of “the Yanks,” a name embraced by the era’s newspaper editors as one that fit more snugly than “Highlanders” when typesetting the sports page headlines!