Jimmy Williams

Who was the first power-hitting superstar in the history of the Yankees? If you said Babe Ruth, you were wrong. More than a decade before the Bambino started swatting homers for New York, Williams was a powerful second baseman for the franchise. Technically, the team was known as the Highlanders during Williams’ tenure, so maybe that trivia question was unfair. But anyway…Williams was a power-hitting second baseman, which was about as rare in the early 1900s as a bathtub.