1939 Yankees Home Schedule

Game No. 3 - Ted Williams ML Debut
Game No. 8 - Lou Gehrig Last career Game
Game No. 34 - Lou Gehrig Day - Speech
(Full list of Noted Games below Chart)

Information Provided by: David Shakir
and KeyManCollectibles.com

NOTES:

Up until 1979 the date was not included on New York Yankees Grandstand & Bleacher tickets. Once you have figured out the year of your ticket using the Grandstand Ticket Stub Dating Guide, you will need to figure out the game that the ticket is attributed to. Correctly attributing the game number on a ticket to the game played will effect the value. A ticket stub will increase in value due to a significant event, or player milestone. A hitting or pitching milestone by a noted player such as a Home Run by Mickey Mantle or a shutout thrown by Whitey Ford will have added value.

This New York Yankees Home Schedule is a list of home games to help attribute the number on a ticket to the game(s) played. In 1939 the Yankees were scheduled to play 154 games. 77 Road games, and 77 Home games.

Heading into the 1930's baseball saw a major decline in week-day afternoon single game attendance, due in part to the great depression, and high unemployment. To boost gate receipts Baseball offered two games for the price of one. What they did was remove a scheduled single week-day game and added it to a Sunday game earlier in the season. They called it a "Synthetic Double Header" (Synthetic Double Headers, were sometimes created due to stress on the schedule caused by excessive Rain outs)

NOTE: Game No. 63 scheduled for Sept. 11 vs Washington was removed and added to Game No. 62 played on Sept 10, as a Synthetic Double Header. Game No. 75 scheduled for Sept. 29 vs Philadelphia was removed and added to Game No. 74 and played on Sept 28, as a Synthetic Double Header. Game No. 77 scheduled for Oct. 1 vs Boston was removed and added to Game No. 76 and played on Sept 30, as a Synthetic Double Header.

Tickets for games that were rained out were voided. If the "Make Up Game" for the rain out was added to another scheduled game to create a double header, the ticket number of that scheduled game was used for admission to both games. If the rain out game was made up on an off day, the ticket issued for admission to that game featured a Letter for the Game No. For a scheduled double header, the first game number of the two was used on the ticket for admission to both games.

NOTE: Ticket Game No. "B" can be attributed to the scheduled game No. 51 a make up Double Header played on 08-06-1939 vs Cleveland. The attendance was 76,753 exceeding the Yankee Stadium seating capacity of 70,000. A lettered ticket was used for the overflow. More research needs to be done to confirm this ticket is attributed to this game.

1939 HOME GAME SCHEDULE

Home Game No. = Number of the home game scheduled. Date of Game = Day the game was played or Scheduled.
Opponent = Visiting team. Ticket No. = Ticket number for game(s) played. Status = Rain Out - Make Up Game - Scheduled

*Yellow Highlight = Scheduled Double Header	Gray Highlight = Double Header due to a Make up game
Pink Highlight = Game Not played, Postponed, Rain Out	(Game No.) = Number of rained out game being made up

Home Game No.	DATE OF GAME	OPPONENT	TICKET NO.	STATUS
1	04-18-1939	Boston Red Sox	Void	Rainout
2	04-19-1939	Boston Red Sox	Void	Rainout
3	04-20-1939	Boston Red Sox	3	Scheduled Game
4	04-24-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	4	Scheduled Game
5	04-25-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	5	Scheduled Game
6	04-26-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	Void	Rainout
7	04-29-1939	Washington Senators	7	Scheduled Game
8	04-30-1939	Washington Senators	8	Scheduled Game
9	05-16-1939	St. Louis Browns	9	Scheduled Game
10	05-17-1939	St. Louis Browns	10	Scheduled Game
11	05-18-1939	St. Louis Browns	11	Scheduled Game
12	05-19-1939	Chicago White Sox	12	Scheduled Game
13	05-20-1939	Chicago White Sox	13	Scheduled Game
14	05-21-1939	Cleveland Indians	14	Scheduled Game
15	05-22-1939	Cleveland Indians	Void	Rainout
16	05-23-1939	Cleveland Indians	16	Scheduled Game
17	05-24-1939	Detroit Tigers	17	Scheduled Game
18	05-25-1939	Detroit Tigers	18	Scheduled Game
19	05-26-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	19	Scheduled Game
20-I	05-27-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	20	Scheduled Game
(6)-II	05-27-1939	Philadelphia Athletics		Make Up Game
21	05-28-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	21	Scheduled Game
22	06-14-1939	Cleveland Indians	22	Scheduled Game
23	06-15-1939	Cleveland Indians	23	Scheduled Game
24	06-16-1939	Cleveland Indians	24	Scheduled Game
25	06-17-1939	Detroit Tigers	25	Scheduled Game
26	06-18-1939	Detroit Tigers	26	Scheduled Game
27	06-19-1939	Detroit Tigers	27	Scheduled Game
28	06-20-1939	Chicago White Sox	28	Scheduled Game
29	06-21-1939	Chicago White Sox	29	Scheduled Game
30	06-22-1939	Chicago White Sox	30	Scheduled Game
31	06-23-1939	St. Louis Browns	Void	Rainout
32	06-24-1939	St. Louis Browns	32	Scheduled Game
33-I	06-25-1939	St. Louis Browns	33	Scheduled Game
(31)-II	06-25-1939	St. Louis Browns		Make Up Game
*34-I	07-04-1939	Washington Senators	34	Scheduled
*35-II	07-04-1939	Washington Senators		Double Header
36	07-05-1939	Washington Senators	35	Scheduled Game
37	07-07-1939	Boston Red Sox	37	Scheduled Game
38-I	07-08-1939	Boston Red Sox	38	Scheduled Game
(1)-II	07-08-1939	Boston Red Sox		Make Up Game
39-I	07-09-1939	Boston Red Sox	39	Scheduled Game
(2)-II	07-09-1939	Boston Red Sox		Make Up Game
40	07-25-1939	St. Louis Browns	40	Scheduled Game
41	07-26-1939	St. Louis Browns	41	Scheduled Game
42	07-27-1939	St. Louis Browns	Void	Rainout
43	07-28-1939	Chicago White Sox	43	Scheduled Game
44	07-29-1939	Chicago White Sox	Void	Rainout
45-I	07-30-1939	Chicago White Sox	45	Scheduled Game
(44)-II	07-30-1939	Chicago White Sox		Make Up Game
46	08-01-1939	Detroit Tigers	46	Scheduled Game
47	08-02-1939	Detroit Tigers	47	Scheduled Game
48	08-03-1939	Detroit Tigers	48	Scheduled Game
49	08-04-1939	Cleveland Indians	49	Scheduled Game
50	08-05-1939	Cleveland Indians	50	Scheduled Game
51-I	08-06-1939	Cleveland Indians	51	Scheduled Game
(15)-II	08-06-1939	Cleveland Indians		Make Up Game
52	08-15-1939	Washington Senators	52	Scheduled Game
53	08-16-1939	Washington Senators	53	Scheduled Game
54	08-17-1939	Washington Senators	54	Scheduled Game
55	08-18-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	55	Scheduled Game
56	08-19-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	Void	Rainout
57-I	08-20-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	57	Scheduled Game
(56)-II	08-20-1939	Philadelphia Athletics		Make Up Game
58	09-06-1939	Boston Red Sox	58	Scheduled Game
59	09-07-1939	Boston Red Sox	59	Scheduled Game
60	09-08-1939	Boston Red Sox	60	Scheduled Game
61	09-09-1939	Washington Senators	61	Scheduled Game
*62-I	09-10-1939	Washington Senators	62	Scheduled Game
+(63)-II	09-10-1939	Washington Senators		Game Added
63	09-11-1939	Washington Senators	Void	Game Removed
64	09-12-1939	Cleveland Indians	64	Scheduled Game
65	09-13-1939	Cleveland Indians	65	Scheduled Game
66	09-14-1939	Detroit Tigers	66	Scheduled Game
67	09-15-1939	Detroit Tigers	67	Scheduled Game
68	09-16-1939	Detroit Tigers	68	Scheduled Game
69-I	09-17-1939	St. Louis Browns	69	Scheduled Game
(42)-II	09-17-1939	St. Louis Browns		Make Up Game
70	09-18-1939	St. Louis Browns	70	Scheduled Game
71	09-19-1939	Chicago White Sox	71	Scheduled Game
72	09-20-1939	Chicago White Sox	72	Scheduled Game
73	09-21-1939	Chicago White Sox	73	Scheduled Game
*74-I	09-28-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	74	Scheduled Game
+(75)-II	09-28-1939	Philadelphia Athletics		Game Added
75	09-29-1939	Philadelphia Athletics	Void	Game Removed
76-I	09-30-1939	Boston Red Sox	76	Scheduled Game
+(77)-II	09-30-1939	Boston Red Sox		Game Added
77	10-01-1939	Boston Red Sox	Void	Game Removed

Games of Note
(Check box scores for milestone games not listed here)

Ticket Number	Player Milestone or event
GAME NO. - 3	Ted Williams (Boston) Major League Debut 1st career Hit
GAME NO. - 7	Lou Gehrig Last Career Hit #2,728 Charlie Keller 1st Career Hit
GAME NO. - 8	Lou Gehrig Last Career Game, 2,130 consecutive games streak ends (Taken out "for the good of the team.")
GAME NO. - 17	Charlie Gehringer (Detroit) Career Home Run 160
GAME NO. - 23	Lefty Gomez Complete Game Shutout
GAME NO. - 33	Bill Dickey 2 Home Runs (game-I career 162, 163)
GAME NO. - 34	Lou Gehrig Day "Luckiest Man Speech" 1st player to have his uniformed number retired #4
GAME NO. - 38	Jimmie Foxx (Boston) Career Home Run 442 (game-II)
GAME NO. - 39	Jimmie Foxx (Boston) Career Home Run 443 (game-II)
GAME NO. - 41	Bill Dickey 2 Home Runs (career 168, 169)
GAME NO. - 47	Hank Greenberg (Detroit) Career Home Run 193
GAME NO. - 48	Joe DiMaggio 2 Home Runs (career 117, 118)
GAME NO. - 55	Red Ruffing Complete Game Shutout
GAME NO. - 62	Bill Dickey 2 Home Runs (game-II career 174, 175)
GAME NO. - 68	Hank Greenberg (Detroit) Career Home Run 201
GAME NO. - 71	Yankees Win their 100th game of the season
GAME NO. - 74	Joe Gordon 2 Home Runs (game-I career52. 53)
GAME NO. - 76	Ted Williams (Boston) Career Home Run 31 (31 HR RC season)

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