• Played on 10 world championship teams and 14 pennant winners in 17 full seasons; played in 75 World Series games
• Three-time American League Most Valuable Player (1951, 1954, 1955); never finished lower than fourth in MVP voting from 1950-57
• Led American League catchers in home runs and RBI in each of nine straight seasons (1949-1957)
• Selected to play in 15 successive All-Star Games, 18x All-Star overall
• Played outfield early and late in his career, a total of 260 games
• Hit the first pinch hit home run in World Series history (1947)
• Caught at least 100 games in 10 seasons, and caught both games of 117 doubleheaders
• Became one of only four catchers to have a 1.000 fielding percentage for the season (1958)
• Caught the only Perfect Game in World Series history (1956)
• Selected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team • No. 8 retired by the New York Yankees
No one claims he wasn’t one of the Best when Baseball was GREAT.