Miller Huggins(110-44), Pythagorean W-L: Sep 21, NYY (104-43) lost to DET, 1-6, 151. Big Game Hunting: The Football Fourpack for Week 6 | Trib HSSN - unknown, for minors. - Babe Ruth, Sortable Hitting Stats for the 1927 New York Yankees (click any stat to sort). Five O'Clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Sixty, count em, sixty, he quipped, Lets see some son-of-a-bitch match that.. View all of the #11s. Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a unique set of rosters not easily They played their home games at Yankee Stadium (Park Factors: 97/93) where 1,164,015 fans witnessed their 1927 Yankees finish the season with a .714 winning percentage. New York had 12 hits, and for the first time this year the Nos. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. 1) The Negro Leagues Researchers and Authors Group put together by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum thanks to a grant provided by Major League Baseball. Cincinnati Red Stockings: Who holds the record for the most home runs in a single major league baseball season? Simply put, the Yankees were too awesome to buckle under to the Bucs, sweeping them in four games. A 1905 newspaper article about the Yale baseball team notes that one of Yale's coaches, Billy Lush, who had been an outfielder with the Cleveland Naps the year before, was "a member of 'Murderer's Row,' as pitchers call the first six batters on the Cleveland list. He hit his first grand slam of the yearoff the Athletics Lefty Grovethen hit two in his next game against the Senators to tie the mark with two to play. Besides being extremely talented, there's another reason why the 1927 Yankees are considered the best team in MLB history: they dominated throughout the entire season. Oh, and he also went 13-7 with a 2.22 ERA as a pitcher. Their underlying statistics show moderate, if inconsistent, underpinnings for "Five O'Clock Lightning," but the team outdistanced those numbers .