THE NEW YORK YANKEES - JERSEY SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: RON "ROCKY" SWOBODA, MIKE TORREZ, SPARKY LYLE, RON "LOUISIANA LIGHTNING" GUIDRY - HFSID 293083
Price: $750.00
NEW YORK YANKEES (1970s)
Yankees home jersey, signed near the logo on the chest by four team
members from the 1970s. Three of the signers were on the 1977 World Championship
team.
Jersey signed: "Sparky Lyle", "Mike Torrez", "Ron Guidry", "Ron
Swoboda". Replica New York Yankees home jersey, size 48, signed around the
team logo on the chest. RON GUIDRY (b. 1950) was 1978 Cy Young Award
winner as well as a four-time All-Star (1978, 1979, 1982 and 1983)
and five-time Golden Glove winner (1982-1986). A member of the New York
Yankees' pitching roster from 1975 to 1988, he won four World Series games and
helped the Yanks win the 1977 and 1978 championships. 1978 was probably
Guidry's best year, when he posted a 25-3 record, along with an American
League-leading nine shutouts and ERA of 1.74. (He also led the AL in ERA in
1979 and in wins and win-loss record in 1985). In all, he posted a 170-91 record
over his career with an ERA of 3.29, 26 shutouts and 1,778 Ks. The Yankees
retired his number 49 on Aug. 23, 2003. SPARKY LYLE (b. 1944) a relief
pitcher throughout his big-league career (1967-1982), Lyle was sent from
the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in a notoriously one-sided trade
(1972). In 1977 he became the first American League reliever to win the Cy
Young Award. He later co-authored The Bronx Zoo (1979), a candid
account of playing for the Yankees under owner George Steinbrenner. As a
20-year-old Met rookie in 1965, RON SWOBODA (b.1944) hit a career-high 19 home
runs. Though his subsequent career performance was a relative
disappointment, he was a key member of the 1969 "Miracle Mets." He collected
half of his 52 RBI in the last five weeks of the season, and hit two home
runs to beat Steve Carlton 4-3 the night Carlton struck out 19. In Game 4 of
the World Series, Swoboda's daring ninth-inning diving catch of a line drive in
right-center field saved the day for New York. When the American League adopted
the designated hitter rule in 1973, Swoboda was used by the Yankees as a platoon
DH. Had the Red Sox started a left hander on Opening Day that year, Swoboda
would have been the player ever to come to bat as a DH. (Instead, Boston started
a righty, so Ron Blomberg earned that distinction.) A vivacious character with
an engaging sense of humor, Swoboda became a sportscaster after his career
ended. MIKE TORREZ (b. 1946) won more than 15 games six seasons in a row
(1974-79) for five different teams. The 6'5" Kansan first achieved
consistency with the Expos in 1972, winning 16 games. In 1975 with Baltimore, he
went 20-9 with a league-leading .690 winning percentage. He was sent to Oakland
in the 1976 seven-player trade that brought Reggie Jackson to the Orioles.
Torrez won 16 that year (including three straight shutouts) and 17 in 1977 for
the A's and Yankees. He helped New York to a pennant with seven straight wins in
July and August. He threw two complete-game victories in the '77 World Series
against the Dodgers and was the beneficiary of Jackson's three home runs in the
sixth and final game. Guidry, Lyle and Torrez were all members of the 1977
World Championship Yankee team. Swoboda played for the Yankees earlier
(1971-1973), but was a New York sports broadcaster later in the decade before
moving to New Orleans. Fine condition.
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