August 14
This Day in Yankees History
The championships, trades, and milestones that happened on this date across 120+ years of Yankees baseball.
No franchise-defining moment landed on August 14-- but Yankees history never sits quiet for long. Here's what happened around this date.
Around This Week
Tragedy / MemorialAugust 16, 1920
Ray Chapman's Fatal Beaning
Carl Mays's pitch killed Cleveland's Ray Chapman -- the only on-field fatality in MLB history.
Record / MilestoneAugust 12, 1964
Mel Stottlemyre's 1964 Debut Season
Stottlemyre went 9-3 after an August call-up and saved the Yankees' pennant race.