Arizona’s Yankee Del Webb Discovered
Developer Del Webb brought signature building projects and new home developments to Arizona in the boom years following World War II, but he also brought the New York Yankees to train in Phoenix in 1951. For the past three years, the Play Ball team has been working to contact anyone with a connection to his Arizona baseball story. Webb had no children so finding a living relative able to share the history has been impossible. But recently, thanks to a lead provided by new volunteer Jon Rosenthal, contact has been made to people in Sun City with information about Webb’s Yankees and a season when Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio warmed up in the Arizona sun before winning another World Series for the storied franchise later that year.
