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Posted By: howard

That is a bizarre pennant. The names include a few players such as Al Downing, Tex Clevenger, and Earl Torgeson who barely played for the yankees in 1961 yet doesn't include Johnny Blanchard who hit twenty-one HRs and batted over .300. The printing of the names seems pretty sloppy also. Any chance these were sold blank so fans could write in the names they wanted?

I'd guess it dates from mid-July when Downing joined the team to late August when Torgeson was dropped.