1961 Yankees: "Wanted Dead or Alive" - TV show 1958-1961.

Five consecutive pennants have been won only twice, both times by the New York Yankees.

60 years since 61 in 61: second of five consecutive pennants; end of the old Yankee dynasty. Saturday, January 2, 2021

1949,1950,1951,1952,1953: five consecutive pennants and five consecutive World Series championships managed by Casey Stengel...

1960,1961,1962,1963,964: five consecutive pennants and two consecutive World Series championships (1961-1962) managed by Casey Stengel (1960), Ralph Houk (1961-1963), Yogi Berra (1964).

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This post addresses who is left from the iconic 1961 Yankees.

Starting players and key backups:

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Elston Howard	32	129	482	446	64	155	17	5	21	77	0	3	28	65	.348	.387	.549	.936	153	245	5	3	1	4	6
2	1B	Bill Skowron	30	150	608	561	77	150	23	4	28	89	0	0	35	108	.267	.318	.472	.790	113	265	21	8	0	3	9
3	2B	Bobby Richardson	25	162	706	662	80	173	17	5	3	49	9	7	30	23	.261	.295	.316	.610	67	209	15	2	10	2	1
4	SS	Tony Kubek*	25	153	658	617	84	170	38	6	8	46	1	3	27	60	.276	.306	.395	.701	90	244	7	1	10	3	1
5	3B	Clete Boyer	24	148	579	504	61	113	19	5	11	55	1	3	63	83	.224	.308	.347	.656	79	175	13	2	1	8	4
6	LF	Yogi Berra*	36	119	437	395	62	107	11	0	22	61	2	0	35	28	.271	.330	.466	.795	115	184	7	2	0	5	4
7	CF	Mickey Mantle#	29	153	646	514	131	163	16	6	54	128	12	1	126	112	.317	.448	.687	1.135	206	353	2	0	1	5	9
8	RF	Roger Maris*	26	161	698	590	132	159	16	4	61	141	0	0	94	67	.269	.372	.620	.993	167	366	16	7	0	7	0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	C	Johnny Blanchard*	28	93	275	243	38	74	10	1	21	54	1	0	27	28	.305	.382	.613	.995	168	149	6	4	0	1	9
10	LF	Hector Lopez	31	93	274	243	27	54	7	2	3	22	1	0	24	38	.222	.292	.305	.596	64	74	8	1	2	3	1
11	LF	Bob Cerv	36	57	131	118	17	32	5	1	6	20	1	0	12	17	.271	.344	.483	.827	124	57	6	1	0	0	0
12	3B	Billy Gardner	33	41	109	99	11	21	5	0	1	2	0	0	6	18	.212	.278	.293	.571	57	29	4	3	1	0	0

Starting pitchers and main relief pitchers:

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Whitey Ford*	32	25	4	.862	3.21	39	39	0	11	3	0	283.0	242	108	101	23	92	3	209	1	0	8	1159	115	3.14	1.180	7.7	0.7	2.9	6.6	2.27
2	SP	Bill Stafford	22	14	9	.609	2.68	36	25	6	8	3	2	195.0	168	65	58	13	59	4	101	5	0	1	796	139	3.39	1.164	7.8	0.6	2.7	4.7	1.71
3	SP	Ralph Terry	25	16	3	.842	3.15	31	27	2	9	2	0	188.1	162	74	66	19	42	0	86	1	0	0	751	118	3.66	1.083	7.7	0.9	2.0	4.1	2.05
4	SP	Rollie Sheldon	24	11	5	.688	3.60	35	21	5	6	2	0	162.2	149	70	65	17	55	2	84	2	0	6	670	103	3.95	1.254	8.2	0.9	3.0	4.6	1.53
5	SP	Bud Daley*	28	8	9	.471	3.96	23	17	0	7	0	0	129.2	127	63	57	17	51	6	83	4	1	1	558	94	4.27	1.373	8.8	1.2	3.5	5.8	1.63
6	SP	Bob Turley	30	3	5	.375	5.75	15	12	1	1	0	0	72.0	74	47	46	11	51	0	48	4	0	2	334	65	5.52	1.736	9.3	1.4	6.4	6.0	0.94
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
7	CL	Luis Arroyo*	34	15	5	.750	2.19	65	0	54	0	0	29	119.0	83	34	29	5	49	8	87	3	0	4	484	169	2.97	1.109	6.3	0.4	3.7	6.6	1.78
8	RP	Jim Coates	28	11	5	.688	3.44	43	11	15	4	1	5	141.1	128	60	54	15	53	0	80	7	0	2	595	108	4.10	1.281	8.2	1.0	3.4	5.1	1.51
9	RP	Hal Reniff	22	2	0	1.000	2.58	25	0	16	0	0	2	45.1	31	14	13	1	31	3	21	0	0	4	190	145	3.99	1.368	6.2	0.2	6.2	4.2	0.68
10	RP	Tex Clevenger	28	1	1	.500	4.83	21	0	9	0	0	0	31.2	35	20	17	3	21	1	14	1	0	2	146	78	5.01	1.768	9.9	0.9	6.0	4.0	0.67
11	RP	Danny McDevitt*	28	1	2	.333	7.62	8	2	2	0	0	1	13.0	18	11	11	2	8	0	8	1	1	1	61	50	5.42	2.000	12.5	1.4	5.5	5.5	1.00
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
12		Art Ditmar	32	2	3	.400	4.64	12	8	1	1	0	0	54.1	59	33	28	9	14	0	24	2	0	1	231	80	4.73	1.344	9.8	1.5	2.3	4.0	1.71

Ditmar: June 14, 1961: Traded by the New York Yankees with Deron Johnson to the Kansas City Athletics for Bud Daley.

The M&M boys are long gone to cancer: Roger Maris 1985, Mickey Mantle 1995. Whitey Ford died recently. The only other Hall of Fame player on the 1961 Yankees was Yogi Berra who died in 2015.

Whitey Ford in memoriam: 1928-2020. Friday, October 9, 2020

Whitey Ford died Oct. 8, 2020 at his Long Island home at age 91. He was the greatest Yankee pitcher of all time and spent his entire career with the Yankees.

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Let's check the players listed above as of (originally January 4, 2021; Ditmar died since then) October 23, 2021.

Wanted: Dead or Alive 1958–1961 Steve McQueen

Living players are sorted by age. Dead players are sorted by the date they died. Age shown on October 1, 1961, the last day of the regular season when Maris hit home run number 61. He was 27 years and 21 days.

				Sorted	Sorted		10/1/1961	10/1/1961
		Born	Today	Living	days		years	days
IF	Gardner	Tue, Jul 19, 1927	Sat, Oct 23, 2021	94	96		34	74
OF	Lopez	Mon, Jul 8, 1929	Sat, Oct 23, 2021	92	107		32	85
P	Daley	Fri, Oct 7, 1932	Sat, Oct 23, 2021	89	16		28	359
2B	Richardson	Mon, Aug 19, 1935	Sat, Oct 23, 2021	86	65		26	43
SS	Kubek	Sat, Oct 12, 1935	Sat, Oct 23, 2021	86	11		25	355
P	Terry	Thu, Jan 9, 1936	Sat, Oct 23, 2021	85	288		25	266
P	Sheldon	Thu, Dec 17, 1936	Sat, Oct 23, 2021	84	310		24	288
		Born	Today	Living	days		years	days
			Sorted				10/1/1961	10/1/1961
		Born	Died	Lived	days		years	days
P	Ditmar	Wed, Apr 3, 1929	Fri, Jun 11, 2021	92	69		32	181
P	Ford	Sun, Oct 21, 1928	Thu, Oct 8, 2020	91	352		32	345
RP	Coates	Thu, Aug 4, 1932	Fri, Nov 15, 2019	87	103		29	58
RP	Clevenger	Sat, Jul 9, 1932	Sat, Aug 24, 2019	87	46		29	84
OF	Cerv	Tue, May 5, 1925	Thu, Apr 6, 2017	91	336		36	149
CL	Arroyo	Fri, Feb 18, 1927	Wed, Jan 13, 2016	88	329		34	225
LF	Berra	Tue, May 12, 1925	Tue, Sep 22, 2015	90	133		36	142
P	Turley	Fri, Sep 19, 1930	Sat, Mar 30, 2013	82	192		31	12
1B	Skowron	Thu, Dec 18, 1930	Fri, Apr 27, 2012	81	130		30	287
RP	McDevitt	Fri, Nov 18, 1932	Sat, Nov 20, 2010	78	2		28	317
C-OF	Blanchard	Sun, Feb 26, 1933	Wed, Mar 25, 2009	76	27		28	217
3B	Boyer	Tue, Feb 9, 1937	Mon, Jun 4, 2007	70	115		24	234
RP	Reniff	Sat, Jul 2, 1938	Tue, Sep 7, 2004	66	67		23	91
P	Stafford	Sat, Aug 13, 1938	Wed, Sep 19, 2001	63	37		23	49
CF	Mantle	Tue, Oct 20, 1931	Sun, Aug 13, 1995	63	298		29	347
RF	Maris	Mon, Sep 10, 1934	Sat, Dec 14, 1985	51	95		27	21
C	Howard	Sat, Feb 23, 1929	Sun, Dec 14, 1980	51	294		32	220
		Born	Died	Lived	days		years	days
			Sorted				10/1/1961	10/1/1961

Baseball Digest, front cover, December 1961-January 1962 issue.
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

New York Yankees catcher Elston Howard looks at the call of umpire Jocko Conlan during the top of the 5th inning of Game 2 of the 1961 World Series, played October 5, 1961 at Yankee Stadium. Cincinnati Reds second baseman Elio Chacon slides into home safely on a passed ball, as teammate Vada Pinson and Yankee pitcher Ralph Terry look on. The run put the Reds up 3-2, and they ultimately would win their only game of the series 6-2.