The New York Yankees is a professional American baseball team based in the New York City area of ​​the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League of Eastern (AL) divisions. They are one of the two major league clubs based in New York City; the other is the New York Mets of the National League. In the 1901 season, the club began playing in the AL as the Baltimore Orioles (nothing to do with the modern Baltimore Orioles). Frank Farrell and Bill Devery bought the franchise (which had ceased operations) and moved it to New York City, renaming the club New York Highlanders . The Highlanders were officially renamed the Yankees in 1913.
The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, LLC controlled by the family of the late George Steinbrenner, who bought the team in 1973. Brian Cashman is general manager of the team, and Aaron Boone is the team's field manager. The team's home game was played at the original Yankee Stadium from 1923 to 1973 and from 1976 to 2008. In 1974 and 1975, Yankee shared the Shea Stadium with the Mets, in addition to the New York Jets, and the New York Giants. In 2009, they moved to a new baseball stadium of the same name after the previous facility was closed and destroyed. The team is continuously among leaders in the presence of MLB; in 2011, the Yankees had the second highest attendance.
As one of the most successful sports clubs in the world, the Yankees have won 18 division titles, 40 AL banners and 27 World Series championships, all of which are MLB records. The Yankees have won more titles than any other franchise in North America's four major sports leagues. Forty-four Yankees and eleven Yankees managers have been sworn in to National Baseball Hall of Fame, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Whitey Ford. In the pursuit of winning the championship, franchises have used large salaries to attract talent, especially during the Steinbrenner era. According to Forbes, the Yankees is the second highest rated sports franchise in the United States and the second in the world, with an estimated value of around $ 3.7 billion. The Yankees have garnered massive popularity and dedicated fanbase, as well as widespread animosity from other MLB team fans. The team competition with the Boston Red Sox is one of the most famous rivalries in US sport.
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Origins di Baltimore (1901-1902)
In late 1900, Ban Johnson, president of the American League - a minor league formerly known as the Western League (1894-1899) - reorganized the league. He added teams in three East Coast cities, forming the American League (AL) as the premier league in an effort to challenge the National League (NL) for supremacy. Plans to add another team in New York City were blocked by the New York Giants NL, who had enough political power in New York City to prevent the Navy from forming a team. Instead, a team was stationed in Baltimore, Maryland, a city left by NL when contracted from 12 to 8 teams in 1900.
Dubbed the Orioles, the team started playing in 1901 and managed and partly owned by John McGraw. During the 1902 season, McGraw clashed with Johnson and secretly jumped into the Giants. In the middle of the season, the Giants, assisted and backed by McGraw, took possession of the Orioles tribe and started to storm the players, until AL came in and took control of the team. In January 1903, a "peace conference" was held between two leagues to settle disputes and try to co-exist. At the conference, Johnson requested that the Navy team be deployed in New York, to play alongside the NL Giants. It was put into voting, and 15 of 16 major league owners approved it, with only John T. Brush of the Giants opposed. The new owners of the Orioles, Frank J. Farrell and William S. Devery, discovered a rough location that was not blocked by the Giants, and the Baltimore team moved to New York.
Move to New York: the Highlanders years (1903 -1912)
The team's new victory, Hilltop Park (officially known as the "American League Park"), was built at one of the highest points in Upper Manhattan - between 165 and 168 Roads - just a few blocks away from the much larger Polo Grounds. The team came to be known as the New York Highlanders. The name was inspired by a combination of elevated team locations in Upper Manhattan, and for the famous Scottish military unit The Gordon Highlanders, which coincided with the president of the Joseph Gordon team whose family was a Scottish Scottish heritage. The newspaper was originally called the "Gordon's Highlanders" team (eg New York World , April 15, 1903), which soon became "Highlanders". As is common with all members of the American League, the team is often called New York America. They were also dubbed "Invaders" for a short time in 1903. New York Press Sports Editor Jim Price created the unofficial nickname of the Yankees (or "Yanks") for the club as early as 1904, as it is easier to load in the headline and because "Yankee" is and is a synonym that is often used for "America". The prophetic letter to the editor of New York Sun , May 7, 1903, p. 8, has raised this question: " Name for American New Yorks If a new baseball team is to have a name that corresponds to 'Giants,' does not it make sense if they are 'New York Americans' they can be called 'Yankees' or 'Yanks'? "
The Highlander's highest achievement was the second in 1904, 1906 and 1910, 1904 being the closest they came to winning the banner of AL. That year, they lost the decisive match on the final day of the season to Boston Americans, who later became the Boston Red Sox. It has many historical meanings, because the Highlander role in the mennant race causes the Giants to announce that they will not play in the World Series against the winners of the Navy waves. The World Series was not passed for 90 years, when a strike cut through the entire 1994 season. This is the last time Boston defeated New York in a game of decades for a whole century (2004). In 1904, pitcher Jack Chesbro set a single-season victory record in 41, which still survives. In today's play practice, this is most likely an unbreakable recording, when you consider that the last thirty winners are Denny McLain (31) in 1968.
New owner , new house, and new name: Years at Polo Grounds (1913-1922)
The original Polo Grounds were burned in 1911 and the Highlanders allowed the Giants to play at Hilltop Park during reconstruction. The relationship between the two teams warmed up, and the Highlander would move to a newly built Polo Ground in 1913. Now playing in Harlem River, away from their home in the highlands, the name "Highlanders" is no longer applied, and falls into disuse among the pers. The media have widely adopted the nickname "Yankees" created by New York Press , and in 1913 the team was officially known as the New York Yankees.
By the middle of this decade, Yankees owners Farrell and Devery had become unstable and both were in desperate need of money. In early 1915, they sold the team to Colonel Jacob Ruppert and L'Hommedieu Huston's Tillinghast Captain worth $ 1.25 million. Ruppert inherits the wealth of the brewery, providing Yankees with owners who have deep pockets and a willingness to dig into it to produce a winning team. This will lead the team to more success and prestige than the imaginable Ruppert.
It is interesting to note that all games of the World Series 1921 and 1922 were played in Polo Grounds, when the Yankees fought against the Giants who had intrutik powers.
Sluggers and Stadium: Ruth, Gehrig, and Murderer's Row (1923-1935)
In the years around 1920, the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Chicago White Sox had dÃÆ' Â © tente. The trade between the three ballclubs contradicts Ban Johnson and gathers the nickname team "The Insurrectos". This tente paid off well for the Yankees because they increased their salaries. Most of the new players who will later contribute to the team's success come from the Red Sox, whose owner, Harry Frazee, exchanged it for a large sum of money to finance his theatrical production. Pitcher-turned-out-baby Babe Ruth is the most gifted of all acquisitions from Boston, and the results of the trade will haunt the Red Sox for the next 86 years, a range in which teams do not win a World Series championship. The Red Sox often find themselves out of the playoff hunt as a result of Yankees success. This phenomenon is finally known as the Bambino Curse as a failure of the Red Sox and the success of the Yankees seems almost supernatural, and it seems to originate from that one trade. However, it will not be until 1990 when Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe wrote a book with the same title that the curse was published.
The number of Ruth's home runs proved so popular that the Yankees started attracting more people than their National League counterpart, the Giants. In 1921 - the year after the acquisition of Babe Ruth - Yankees played in their first World Series. They competed against the Giants, and all eight games of the series were played in the Polo Grounds. After the 1922 season, the Yankees were told to move from Polo Square. Giants manager John McGraw is said to have commented that the Yankees must "move to some off the beaten path, like Queens", but instead they pioneered a new baseball stadium in the Bronx, just across the Harlem River from Polo Grounds. In 1922, the Yankees returned to the World Series again, and suffered a second defeat at the hands of the Giants. Important newcomers to this period were Miller Huggins and general manager Ed Barrow. Hiring Huggins by Ruppert in 1918 would cause a rift between the owners that ultimately led Ruppert to buy Huston out in 1923.
In 1923, the Yankees moved into their new home, Yankee Stadium. This is the first place on the deck and sits with a staggering 58,000 people. In the first game at Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hit a home run, which fits as a home run and his appeal is paid to the stadium, giving him the nickname "The House Was Built Ruth". At the end of the season, the Yankees face the Giants in the World Series for the third year in a row, and win in a new baseball stadium for their first championship. Before that, the Giants were city icons and dominant teams. From 1923 onwards, the Yankees will take on that role, and years later the Giants will leave Coogan's Bluff for San Francisco.
In the 1927 season, the Yankees featured a lineup known as "Row Killers", and some regarded this team as the best in baseball history (although similar claims have been made for other Yankee teams, especially those dating from 1939, 1961 and 1998). The Yankees won a record 110 games that time with just 44 losses, and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series. Ruth's house running a total of 60 in 1927 set a one-season home run record that would last until it was broken by Roger Maris in 1961. Meanwhile, first baseman Lou Gehrig had his first big season, hitting.373 with 47 home runs and 175 RBI, defeating mark RBI single season (171 in 1921). The Yankees will win the World Series again in 1928.
In 1931, Joe McCarthy was hired as manager and brought the Yankees back to the top of the AL. They swept the Chicago Cubs in the World Series in 1932, and brought the team to win consecutive World Series series in a row to 12. The series was made famous by Babe Ruth "Called Shot" in game three of the series at Wrigley Field, which is fitting "swan song" for his famous World Series career. In 1935, Ruth would leave the Yankees to join the Boston Braves the NL, and he made his last major league baseball appearance on May 30 that year.
Joltin 'Joe DiMaggio (1936-1951)
With Ruth retiring, Gehrig finally has a chance to be the center of attention, but it's only a year before the new star appears, Joe DiMaggio. The team will win four unprecedented World Series titles from 1936 to 1939. For much of 1939, they had to do so without Gehrig, who was out of line and retired for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), now nicknamed "Lou Gehrig's Disease "in his memory. The Yankees declared July 4, 1939 as "Lou Gehrig Day", in which they withdrew from number 4 (the first retired number in baseball). Gehrig made a famous speech in which he declared himself to be "the luckiest man on earth." He died two years later.
The baseball season of 1941 is often described as the last year of the "Golden Era" before World War II and other realities intervened. It was a tense year when the Americans witnessed two major events unfold: Ted Williams of the Red Sox hit for an incredibly rugged batting averages, 400 and Joe DiMaggio earning hits in consecutive ballgames. At the end of his blow, DiMaggio struck in 56 consecutive matches, a major current league record and often considered unbreakable.
Two months after the Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1941 World Series - the first of seven October meetings between two crosstown rivals before Dodgers finally moved to California - the United States was attacked in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire, and many of their best players, including DiMaggio, were recruited into military to fight in World War II. The Yankees still managed to win victory against the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1943 World Series.
In 1945, construction king Del Webb and partner Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail bought a team from Ruppert estate for $ 2.8 million; MacPhail was purchased in 1947.
After several seasons of decline, McCarthy was dismissed in early 1946. Several temporary managers later, Bucky Harris took the job, repaired the ship and took the Yankees to a hard-fought series victory against Dodgers.
Despite only completing three games behind the Cleveland Indians in the 1948 race, Harris was released from duty and replaced by Casey Stengel, who has a reputation as a clown and managing a bad team. His tenure as Yankee field manager, however, was marked by success. The Yankees "underdogs" came from behind to capture and shock the powerful Red Sox team on the last two days of the 1949 season, a face off that sparked the start of the modern Yankees-Red Sox competition. At this time, however, DiMaggio's career subsided, and the "Yankee Clipper" retired after the 1951 season. This year marks the arrival of "Anak Oklahoma", Mickey Mantle, who is one of several new stars to fill this void.
Stengel squad in the 1950s (1951-1959 )
Better club run by Joe McCarthy, the Yankees won the World Series five times in a row from 1949-1953 under Stengel, which continues to be a major league record. Led by players such as center fielder Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford pitcher, and catcher Yogi Berra, the Stengel team won ten banners and seven World Series titles in twelve seasons as a Yankees manager. Stengel was a master in publicity for the team and for himself, even the landing of a cover story in Time magazine in 1955. The 1950 title is the only one of the five championships that will not be won against New New Jersey. York Giants or Brooklyn Dodgers; it was won in four straight games against Whiz Kids from Philadelphia Phillies.
In 1954, the Yankees won more than 100 matches, but the Indians took the flagship with a record AL 111 victory; 1954 is known as The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. In 1955, Dodgers finally defeated the Yankees in the World Series, after the previous five Series of losses, but the Yankees regained strength the following year. On October 8, 1956, in Game Five of the 1956 World Series against Dodgers, pitcher Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in the history of the World Series, which remained the only perfect game in the postseason play and was the only one was also paired in postseason play until Roy Halladay pitched no-beat on October 6, 2010.
The Yankees lost the 1957 World Series to the Milwaukee Braves when Lew Burdette greatly won three games for Braves. Following the Series, the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers both traveled to California, the first to leave for San Francisco and the last to move to Los Angeles, leaving the Yankees as the only New York baseball team. In the 1958 World Series, the Yankees took revenge against Braves, and became the second team to win the Series after going down three games to one. For a decade, the Yankees won six World Series championships ('50, 51, '52, '53, '56, '58) and eight American League banners (six plus '55 and '57). Led by Mantle, Ford, Berra, Elston Howard (the first African-American Yankees player), and the newly acquired Roger Maris, the Yankees entered the 1960s trying to imitate their success in the 1950s.
The M & amp ; M Boys: Mantle and Maris (1960-1964)
Arnold Johnson, the owner of Kansas City Athletics, is an old business associate of co-owners Yankees, Del Webb and Dan Topping. Because of this "special relationship" with the Yankees, he trades young players to them in exchange for cash and aging veterans. Always, this trade has finally become very tilted in favor of the Yankees, leading to allegations that Athletics is little more than the Yankee farm team at the major league level. Kansas City has been home to the top Yankees farming team for nearly 20 years before Athletics moved there from Philadelphia in 1954.
In 1960, Charles O. Finley bought Athletics and ended the trade. But the Yankees have reinforced the supply of their future prospects, which include an outsider named Roger Maris. In 1960, Maris led the league in slugging percentages, RBI, and an additional base hit. She finished second in the home run (one behind Mantle) and total base, and won the Gold Glove, which garnered enough votes for the American League MVP award.
The year 1961 proved to be one of the most memorable in Yankee history. Throughout the summer, Mantle and Maris hit home runs quickly, and became known as "M & M Boys". Ultimately, a severe hip infection forces Mantle to leave the line and get out of the race. But Maris went on, and on October 1 (the last day of the regular season), she hit home run number 61, surpassing the record single season of 60-year-old single Babe Ruth. However, MLB Commissioner Ford Frick (who, as found later), has ghostwritten for Babe Ruth during his career) decided that since Maris had played in the game-162 season, and Ruth (in 1927) had played in the 154 season, two separate notes would be saved. It will be 30 years before the double record will be completed, and Maris will hold the record itself until Mark McGwire broke it in 1998. Maris still holds the American League record.
The Yankees won the banner with a 109-53 record and went on to beat the Cincinnati Reds in the 1961 World Series. The team ended the year with a record 240 home run.
After 1957 departing from Dodgers and Giants for the West Coast, New York City is a one-team city for the first time since professional play began. In 1962, the sport scene in New York changed as the National League expanded to include a new expansion team, the New York Mets, who played in former Giants' home of the Polo Grounds for two seasons while Shea Stadium was being built in Flushing, Queens nearby. The Mets lost a record 120 games while the Yankees will win the 1962 World Series, their tenth in the last sixteen years, defeating the San Francisco Giants in seven games. This will be the last championship of the Yankees until 1977.
The Yankees reached World Series 1963, but were swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers and their pitcher ace, Sandy Koufax.
After the season, Yogi Berra, who recently retired from play, took over managerial duties. Aging Yankees returning next year for the fifth World Series in a row, but beaten in seven games by St. Louis. Louis Cardinals. This will be the last World Series Yankees appearance until 1976, when they were swept by the Big Red Machine.
New ownership and sharp decline (1965-1972)
After the 1964 season, CBS bought 80% of Yankees shares from Topping and Webb for $ 11.2 million. With new ownership, the team began to decline. In fact, the Yankees finished in the second division in 1965 - their first record loss in 40 years, and only second in 47 years.
In 1966, the Yankees finished last in the AL for the first time since 1912. It also marked their first successive season of losses since 1917 and 1918. They finished next-to-last in 1967. While their fate was somewhat improved by the late 1960's and in the early 1970s, they only finished higher than the fourth one during CBS ownership, in 1970. Topping and Webb have had the Yankees for 20 years, losing the World Series only five times and going 10-5 deep in what they get. Instead, the CBS team never went to the World Series.
Various reasons have been given for the decline, but the greatest is the inability of the Yankees to replace their aging superstars with promising young talents, as they have consistently done in the past five decades. At the beginning of the 1961-66 season, longtime fans realized that the talent path had begun to dry out. This was compounded by the introduction of the premier league amateur draft of the year, meaning that the Yankees could no longer sign the players they wanted. While the Yankees are usually designed quite early during this period due to their lackluster records, Thurman Munson is the only voter who meets his demands.
At the beginning of this period, all-time "Voice of the Yankees" Mel Allen, top team announcer since 1939, was fired after the 1964 season, allegedly due to cost-cutting measures by old sponsor Ballantine Beer.
During a hundred years of baseball spring in 1969, the biggest players in every position for each team were named during the vote. The all-time Yankees are: Bill Dickey (catcher), Whitey Ford (left-handed pitcher), Red Ruffing (right-handed pitcher), Johnny Murphy (relief pitcher), Lou Gehrig (first base), Tony Lazzeri (second base)), Phil Rizzuto (shortstop), Red Rolfe (third base), Joe DiMaggio (center field, also named baseball "Greatest Living Player"), Babe Ruth (right field), Mickey Mantle (left field), and Casey Stengel (manager)).
Steinbrenner, Martin, Jackson, and Munson: Bronx Zoo (1973-1981)
A group of investors, led by Cleveland-based shipbuilder George Steinbrenner (1930-2010), bought the club from CBS on January 3, 1973 for $ 8.7 million. Mike Burke remains president until he leaves in April. Within a year, Steinbrenner bought most of his partners and became the team's primary owner, although Burke continued to hold minority interests in the 1980s.
One of Steinbrenner's main goals is to renovate the stadium. It has greatly deteriorated in the late 1960s, and the surrounding neighborhood has also gone south. CBS originally proposed a renovation, but the team had to play elsewhere, and the Mets refused to open their home, Shea Stadium, to the Yankees. A new stadium in Meadowlands, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, is recommended (and finally built, as a Giants Stadium, specifically for football). Finally, in mid-1972, Mayor John Lindsay stepped inside. The city bought the stadium and embarked on an extensive two-year renovation period. Since the city is owned by Shea, the Mets must let the Yankees play two seasons there. The renovations modernize the stadium look, significantly change the dimensions, and reconfigure multiple seats.
After the 1974 season, Steinbrenner made the move that started the modern era of free agents, the signing of pitcher star Catfish Hunter away from Oakland. In mid-season 1975, Steinbrenner made another step, hiring former second baseman Billy Martin as manager. With Martin at the helm, the Yankees reached the 1976 World Series, but were swept by the Cincinnati Reds and their famous "Big Red Machine".
After the 1976 campaign, Steinbrenner added the Oakland star Reggie Jackson - who spent 1976 with the Baltimore Orioles - to the roster. During the spring training of 1977, Jackson alienated his teammates with controversial comments about the Yankees captain, the capture of Thurman Munson. He has bad blood with manager Billy Martin, who has run the Detroit Tigers when Jackson Athletics beat them in the 1972 playoffs. Jackson, Martin, and Steinbrenner repeatedly fought each other along Jackson's 5-year deal. Martin will be hired and fired by Steinbrenner five times over the next 13 years. This conflict, combined with a very rowdy Yankees fan from the late 1970s and the Bronx bad conditions, caused the Yankee organization and stadium to be called the "Bronx Zoo." Despite the turmoil, Jackson starred in the 1977 World Series, when he hit three home runs in the same game, and overall, four home runs on four successive pitches from four different pitchers. Jackson's extraordinary performance in the postseason earned him an MVP Award, and the nickname "Mr. October."
Throughout the late 1970s, the race for banners was often a close competition between the Yankees and the Red Sox. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the dominant Yankees while the Red Sox were largely not a factor. However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Yankees mired in second place and the Red Sox led the league. In the late 1970s, both teams competed simultaneously and locked in close combat.
On July 14, 1978, the Yankees were 14 1 / 2 behind the Red Sox. At the end of July, Martin suspended Reggie Jackson for "deviating" after he was bujata while Martin got a "swing" signal. After Jackson returned, Martin made a famous statement against Jackson and the owner of Steinbrenner: "They respect one another, one is a born liar; the other is punished." Martin was forced to resign the next day and was replaced by Bob Lemon. It happened when the team won five games in a row and Boston lost five times in a row.
The Yankees continued to win games, build the ground and when they met Boston for a series of four crucial games at Fenway Park in early September, they were just four games behind Red Sox. The Yankees sweep Red Sox in what is known as the "Boston Massacre", winning the match 15-3, 13-2, 7-0, and 7-4. The third game is a shutout pitched by "Louisiana Lightning" Ron Guidry, who will lead the course with nine shutouts, 25-3, and 1.74 ERA. Guidry finished with 248 strikeouts, but 260 strikeout Nolan Ryan with the California Angels snatched Guidry from the triple Crown.
On the last day of the season, the two clubs finished first place in AL East, and one playoff game (the regular 163 season match) was held at Fenway Park. With Guidry throwing against former Yankee Mike Torrez, the Red Sox led an early 2-0. In the seventh inning, Yankee shortstop shortstop Bucky Dent drove a three-run home run above "Green Monster" (Fenway Park's famous left-field wall), putting the Yankees up 3-2. Reggie Jackson's solo home run on the following innings sealed up a 5-4 win that gave the Yankees a hundredth win of the season and their third title AL East and Guidry grabbed his 25th win of the season.
After defeating the Kansas City Royals for the third consecutive year at ALCS, the Yankees face Dodgers again in the World Series. They lost the first two games in LA, but won all three games at Yankee Stadium and won Game 6 in Los Angeles, winning their 22nd World Championship.
The changes took place during the 1979 season. The former CyY Award winner, Sparky Lyle, traded to Texas Rangers for several players, including Dave Righetti. Tommy John was acquired from Dodgers and Luis Tiant of the Red Sox who was hated to improve pitching staff. During the season, Bob Lemon was replaced by Billy Martin.
The year 1970 ended with a tragic record for the Yankees. On August 2, 1979, Thurman Munson died after crashing his private plane while practicing the "Touch and Go" landing. Four days later, the entire team flew to Canton, Ohio to attend the funeral, though there was a match later that day against the Orioles. Martin firmly stated that the funeral was more important, and that he did not care if they made it back in time. Bobby Murcer, a close friend of Munson, was chosen to give a speech at his funeral. In a nationally and emotionally broadcast game, Murcer used the Munson bat (which he gave to his friend's wife who had fallen after the game), and rode his five teams in a dramatic 5-4 win. Before the game, Munson's locker was empty except for his catch gear, a sad reminder for his teammates. The locker, labeled number 15, remained empty in the Yankee clubhouse as a warning. When Yankees moved across the street, Munson's locker was torn and installed in the new Stadium museum. Number 15 has been retired by the team.
The 1980 season brought more changes to the Yankees. Billy Martin was fired once again and Dick Howser replaced him. Chris Chambliss was sold to Toronto Blue Jays to catch Rick Cerone. Thanks to Howser's unobtrusive attitude, Reggie Jackson struck.300 for the only time in his career with 41 homers, and finished 2 in MVP voting to Kansas City's George Brett. The Yankees won 103 matches and AL East by three games over the 100-win Baltimore Orioles, but were swept by Royals at the ALCS 1980.
After the season ended, the Yankees signed Dave Winfield on a 10-year contract. Yankee fired Howser and replaced him with Gene Michael. Under Michael, the Yankees led the AL East before the strike took place in June 1981. In the second half of the season, the Yankees fought under Bob Lemon, who replaced Michael. Thanks to the split-season playoff format, Yankees face the Milwaukee Brewers second-round winner in the 1981 Special American League Division Series. After defeating Milwaukee in five games, they breezed through Billy Martin and Oakland Athletics in three ALCS matches. In the World Series, the Yankees got off to a hot start by winning their first two games against the Los Angeles Dodgers. But the Dodgers fought back and shocked the Yankees by winning the next four games to claim their first World Series title since 1965.
Struggle: The Mattingly years (1982-1995)
Following the team's defeat to the Dodgers in the 1981 World Series, the Yankees started their longest absence from the playoffs since 1921. Following the example set by St. Louis Cardinals and Big Red Machine who beat his team in the 1976 World Series, George Steinbrenner announced his plans to turn the Yankees of the Bronx Bombers became "Bronx Burners", enhancing the Yankees' ability to win matches based on speed and defense, instead of "waiting to run home run 3". As a first step towards this goal, the Yankees signed Dave Collins of the Cincinnati Reds during the off-season in 1981. Collins traded to the Toronto Blue Jays after the 1982 season in a deal that also included the future of All-Stars Fred McGriff and Mike Morgan. In return, Yankees get Dale Murray and Tom Dodd.
The Yankees of the 1980s were led by Don Mattingly's first All-Star baseman. Apart from garnering the most total victories from the major league teams, they failed to win the World Series (first Yankees team since 1910) and only had 1 playoff appearance. Although they consistently have a strong offense - Mattingly at various times is his teammate to Dave Winfield (who fought Mattingly for the AL batting title throughout most of the 1984 season), Rickey Henderson, Don Baylor, Ken Griffey, Sr., Mike Pagliarulo, Steve Sax, and Jesse Barfield, and the Yankees lead the majors in a goal-scoring game for a decade - the Yankees team in the 1980s did not have enough pitching early to win the championship. After posting a 22-6 record in 1985, the arm problem was caught with Ron Guidry, and his performance declined over the next three years. From the main remnants of the Yankees rotation, only prominent Dave Righetti, who did not hit on 4 July 1983, but he was transferred to the bullpen the following year where he helped define a closer role. Despite the lack of success of the Yankees pitching during the 1980s, they had three prime pitchers in the early 1990s on their list during these years at Al Leiter, Doug Drabek and JosÃÆ'Â © Rijo. All mismanagement and dealt before they can reach their full potential, with only Rijo returning a lot of value - he traded to Oakland A in a deal that brought Henderson to New York.
The team almost won the AL East in 1985 and 1986, second in Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox (who lost in the World Series that year to the Yankees rivals outside the city, New York Mets), but fell to fourth place in 1987 and fifth in 1988, despite having a mid-season lead in the second year East AL standings. Despite the lack of championship and playoff appearances, Yankees posted the highest winning percentage of all MLB teams during the 1980s.
By the end of the decade, Yankees violations are declining. Henderson and Pagliarulo had departed in mid-1989, while back problems were hampered by both Winfield (who missed the entire '89 season) and Mattingly (who missed most of the second half of 1990). Winfield's term of office with the team ended when he was handled by the Angels. From 1989 to 1992, the team had a losing record, spent significant money on free agents and draft picks that did not meet expectations. In 1990, the Yankees had the worst record in the American League, and the last fourth place in the history of the franchise.
On July 1, 1990, Andy Hawkins pitcher became the first Yankee to lose despite never beating. The third baseman Mike Blowers made a mistake, followed by two runs and errors by left fielder Jim Leyritz with the base loaded, scoring all three runners and batter. The 4-0 loss for the Chicago White Sox was the biggest margin of a no-hitter loss in the 20th century. Ironically, the Yankees (and Hawkins) were not beaten for six rounds in a rain-short game against the White Sox 11 days later.
During the 1990 season, Yankee fans started singing "1918!" to taunt the Red Sox, reminding them of the last time they won a World Series one week in which the Red Sox was there in 1990. Each time the Red Sox was at the Yankee Stadium thereafter, it lowered the screams of "1918!" echoed in the stadium. Yankee fans also mock the Red Sox with signs that say "CURSE OF THE BAMBINO", a picture of Babe Ruth, and wearing "1918!" T-shirts every time they are in the stadium.
Bad appearances in the 1980s and 1990s will soon change. Steinbrenner hired Howard Spira to uncover destructive information at Winfield and was then suspended from day-to-day team operations by Commissioner Fay Vincent when the plot was revealed. The turn of events allows management to implement a coherent acquisition/development program without the owner's intervention. General Manager Gene Michael, along with Buck Showalter manager, shifts the club's emphasis from high-priced acquisitions to develop talent through farming systems. This new philosophy develops key players such as outsiders Bernie Williams, shortstop Derek Jeter, catcher Jorge Posada, and pitchers Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera. The first significant success came in 1994, when the Yankees had the best record in the Navy, but the strike ended Mattucky's season and best chance for a World Series title and was remembered among the 10 worst moments in New York City sports history. Since the last Yankees in the postseason in the season were cut short by strikes, the news media constantly reminded the Yankees about the alignment between the two Yankee teams (1981 and 1994), which included both Yankee teams having division divisions taken with strikes. Throughout October, the media continue to speculate on what might happen if there were no strikes, making reference to the game days in post-season will be played.
A year later, the team qualified for playoffs in the new wild card slot in the strike shortened the 1995 season. In an impressive 1995 League League series against the Seattle Mariners, the Yankees won the first two games at home and dropped the next three in Seattle. Mattingly, suffering greatly from his back injury, retired after the 1995 season. He had an unfavorable difference in starting and ending his career in the years shown by the Yankee World Series (1981 and 1996).
New Dynasty (1996-2007)
Joe Torre has a mediocre career as a manager in the National League, and the choice was initially ridiculed ("Clueless Joe" is a title in New York Daily News ). However, his calm attitude proved to be appropriate, and his tenure was the longest under George Steinbrenner.
The 1996 season saw the emergence of three Yankees that would form the core of the team for years to come: rookie shortstop Derek Jeter, second-year pitcher Andy Pettitte, and second-year pitcher Mariano Rivera, who served as a tuning man in 1996 before getting closer to in 1997. Assisted by these young players, the Yankees won their first AL East title in 15 years in 1996. They defeated the Texas Rangers in ALDS, and at ALCS beat the Baltimore Orioles in five games, which included the famous fan Interference by Jeffrey Maier young man who is referred to as a home run for the Yankees. In the World Series, the team rebounded from a 0-2 deficit and defeated defending champion Atlanta Braves, ending an 18-year championship drought. Jeter was named Rookie of the Year. In 1997, the Yankees lost ALDS 1997 to Indian Cleveland in five games. General Manager Bob Watson resigned and was replaced by assistant general manager Brian Cashman.
The Yankees 1998 is widely recognized to be one of the greatest teams in baseball history, composing the current record of AL-114 regular-season wins against just 48 losses and then sweeping San Diego Padres in the 1998 World Series. Their combined regular and postseason 125 wins are a record single season MLB.
On May 17, 1998, David Wells made a perfect match against the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium. On July 18, 1999, which was the "Day of Yogi Berra" at the stadium, David Cone played a perfect match against the Montreal Expos, with Berra and Don Larsen, the flashing battery for the perfect Larsen World Series game on October 8, 1956 against Brooklyn Dodgers, present. ALCS is the first meeting of the Yankees with the Red Sox in the post-season series. The Yankees will continue to win the 1999 World Series giving the Yankees a 1998-1999 22-3 record (including four sweeping series) in six successive post-season series.
In 2000, the Yankees faced the New York Mets in the first Series World Series Series since 1956. The Yankees won the series in 5 matches, but the defeat in Game 3 snapped a series of their World Series victories at 14, surpassing the club's previous record of 12 (in 1927, 1928, and 1932). The Yankees are the last major league team to be repeated as World Series champions and after the 2000 season they joined the Yankees from 1936-1939 and 1949-1953, as well as the Oakland Athletics 1972-1974 as the only team to win at least three consecutive World Series.
The Yankee dynasty of the 1990s was also part of the Braves-Mets competition. As mentioned above, three of their four World Series wins occurred against one of the teams (Braves in 1996 and 1999, Mets in 2000). Joe Torre added further fuel to the dynasty that was part of the competition, having played for and managed both teams and he became manager of the Yankees and the events of the 1996 season were seen as factors in increasing competition.
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, that year, the Yankees defeated Oakland A in ALDS, and the Seattle Mariners in ALCS. By winning the banner for the fourth year in a row, the Yankees 1998-2001 joined the New York Giants from 1921-1924, and the Yankees from '36 -'39, '49 -'53, '55 -'58 and '60 - '64 as the only team to win at least four straight banners. The Yankees won 11 consecutive postseason series in this 4-year period. In the World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Yankees lost the series when unusual Mariano Rivera blew a save at the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7; it was the second time in five years the team lost the World Series after leading at the bottom of the ninth inning Game 7 (following the Cleveland Indians in 1997) and the first time since 1991 the home side won all seven games from the World Series. The Yankees were also the first American League team to lose the World Series where the home side won all seven games. In addition, despite a very bad series overall, batting under.200, Derek Jeter earned the nickname, "Mr. November", echoing Reggie Jackson's comparison "Mr. October", to run a walk-off home in Game 4, even though it started October 31, when the game ends in the first minute of November 1st. In addition, the Yankees home field after the attack served as the host of a memorial service entitled "Prayer for America."
The highly renewed Yankees team ended the 2002 season with a best record of AL 103-58. This season was highlighted by Alfonso Soriano becoming the first second baseman to reach 30 home runs and stealing 30 bases in a single season. In ALDS, the Yankees lost to last Anaheim Angels champions in four games.
In 2003, the Yankees again had the best league record (101-61), highlighted by the victory of 300 Roger Clemens and the 4000th abduction. In ALCS, they defeated the Boston Red Sox in a dramatic seven-game series, featuring a bench-clearing incident in Game 3 and a late-run walk-off home run by Aaron Boone at the bottom of the 11th inning Game 7 In the World Series, Yankees lost 6 games to the Florida Marlins, lost the World Series at home for the first time since 1981.
In 2004, Yankees acquired Alex Rodriguez, who moved into third base from the usual shortstop position to accommodate Derek Jeter. In ALCS, the Yankees meet the Boston Red Sox again, and become the first team in professional baseball history, and only the third team in North American pro sporting history, who lost the best-of-seven series after taking a 3-0 lead series.
In 2005 Alex Rodriguez won the American League MVP award, becoming the first Yankee to win the award since Don Mattingly in 1985. Yankee again won AL East thanks to tiebreak but lost ALDS in five games to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The 2006 season was highlighted by a 5-game sweep of the Red Sox series at Fenway Park (sometimes referred to as the "Second Boston Massacre"), outscoring Red Sox 49-26.
Despite winning the AL East for the ninth year in a row, Yankee lost again in ALDS, this time to the Detroit Tigers. After ALDS is over, a tragedy occurs when the pitcher Cory Lidle dies when his plane crashes into an apartment building in Manhattan. Together with Thurman Munson, Lidle is the second active Yankee killed in a private plane crash.
On June 18, 2007, the Yankees decided a new venue by signing the first two professional baseball players from the People's Republic of China to MLB, and became the first team in MLB history to sign advertising agreements with Chinese companies. The Yankees' nine-title Navy division title ended in 2007, but they still reach the playoffs with AL Wild Card. For the third year in a row, the team lost in the first round of the playoffs, as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Yankees in the ALDS 2007. After the series, Joe Torre refused the offer of a compensation contract and a reduction from the Yankees and returned to the National League as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Back to top: The championship is followed followed by the struggle ( 2008-2016)
After Torre's departure, the Yankees signed former catcher Joe Girardi for a three-year contract to manage the club. The 2008 season is the last season played at Yankee Stadium. To celebrate the last year and the history of Yankee Stadium, the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played there on July 15, 2008. The last regular match of the season at Yankee Stadium was played on 21 September 2008. After the match, Jeter spoke to the crowd, for their support over the years, and urged them to "take memories of this field, add them to new memories that will come at the new Yankee Stadium and continue passing on from generation to generation." Despite some roster midseason moves, the team is hampered by injury and missed the playoffs for the first time in 14 seasons.
During the quiet season, Yankee updated their list with several acquisitions of star free agents, including CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira, and A. J. Burnett. At the start of the 2009 season, Yankees opened a new Yankee Stadium, located just one block north on River Avenue from their former home. The Yankees set a major league record by playing an error-free ball for 18 games in a row from 14 May to 1 June 2009. The Yankees finished first at AL East. In ALDS they defeated the Twins in a sweep before moving to ALCS where the Yankees defeated the Angel in six games. They beat defending champion Phillies Philadelphia in Game 6 of the World Series 7-3, to take the 4-2 series, their 27th World Series title.
The 2010 season featured a rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox being revived to start and end the season. The Yankees and the Red Sox start and end the season against each other at Fenway Park. This is the first time since 1950 that this has happened. In June, Dodgers Joe Torre played against the Yankees for the first time since he became manager of Dodgers, with the Yankees taking two of three games in the series. During the All-Star break 2010, Pennsylvania broadcaster Bob Sheppard and main owner George Steinbrenner died. Eight days later, another old Yankee icon, former player and manager Ralph Houk, died. The Yankees won the American League Wild Card. They swept the Minnesota Twins in the 2010 American League Series, but lost to the Texas Rangers in the Serie A championship game Series 4 through 2.
In a 22-9 victory over athletics at home on August 25, 2011, the Yankees became the first team in Premier League history to reach three grand slams in a single game. They were beaten by Robinson CanÃÆ'³, Russell Martin, and Curtis Granderson. The Yankees won the AL East title for the second time in three seasons, finishing with 97 wins and bringing home the field throughout the post. However, they were defeated by the Tamil Tigers in five games in the 2011 American League Series.
In 2012, the Yankees return to finish the season with the best record of AL in 95-67. In mid-July, the Yankee traded two prospects to the Seattle Mariners for Ichiro Suzuki. They face the Orioles in the 2012 American League Series. In Game 3, RaÃÆ'ºl IbaÃÆ' Â ± ez becomes the oldest player to hit two home runs in a game, the oldest to hit a homer walk-off, the player's first substitute position in the postseason game to hit two home run, and the first two hit home runs in the innings of 9 or so in the postseason game, in a 3-2 Yankees' victory. The Yankees will defeat the Orioles in five games. But in the 2012 United States Champions League Series, the Yankees lost to the Tamil Tigers again, this time in four games, compounded by a foul-fighting and season-ending injury to Derek Jeter.
The 2013 season is full of injuries. Mark Teixeira tensed his elbows during the WBC and only played 15 matches this season, Alex Rodriguez playing only 44 games after hip surgery, Derek Jeter only played 17 games with ankle injury from ALCS 2012 and Curtis Granderson only played 61 games with an injured forearm and knuckle. On April 12, 2013, the Yankees made their second triple game in a home game that played the Baltimore Orioles. It was rated as 4-6-5-6-5-3-4, the first triple drama of its kind in baseball history. On September 25, 2013, the Yankees lost to the Tampa Bay Rays, which for the second time in the wild-card era, removing them from the playoffs. They ended the 85-77 season, ending in third place in AL East.
During the off-season 2013-14, the Yankees do a big free-agent shopping party, bringing in players like Brian McCann, Jacoby Ellsbury, Masahiro Tanaka, and Carlos BeltrÃÆ'¡n. Nevertheless, the Yankees missed the playoff for the second consecutive season, the first time in the post-1994 strike era, finishing 2nd in the AL East with a 84-78 record. Rodriguez missed the entire season due to a 162 game suspension due to his participation in the Biogenesis baseball scandal. One of the important moments occurred on September 25, 2014, when Derek Jeter - playing his last home game - hit a single off thrower off Evan Meek to defeat the Baltimore Orioles in front of 48,613 fans who came to see the captain for the last time. Reliever Dellin Betances finished third in the voting for AL Rookie of the Year, as Masahiro Tanaka pitcher finished in fifth.
The 2015 season saw the Yankees playoff for the first time since 2012. In his return from suspension, Rodriguez hit 33 home runs, the biggest since 2008, and tied Hank Aaron's record of fifteen 30-homer seasons. Teixeira hit 31 home runs before hit-by-pitch ended his season in August. Greg Bird's first baseman rookie had an impressive performance on Teixeira spot, hitting 11 home runs in 46 games, while rookie start pitcher Luis Severino went 5-3 with 2.89 ERA in 62.1 innings after being called on August. Closer Andrew Miller won AL Reliever of the Year Award. The Yankees led the AL East for much of the year before falling by Toronto's rising Blue Jays team, ending the 87-75 season and in 2nd place. They were defeated by Houston Astros, 3-0 at American League Wild Card Game 2015, shutting for six innings against Dallas starter Keuchel, getting rewarded from a frustrated Yankees home crowd.
Outside of the season, the Yankees are trading for the Cincinnati Reds' closer Aroldis Chapman after allegations of domestic violence are degrading in value. Chapman will then be suspended for 30 matches. The Yankees start the 2016 season with a rough note, starting at 9-17. The resurgent 2015 experienced by Rodriguez and Teixeira did not carry over, as they battled.200 and.204 for the season, respectively. Birds are ruled out for the season after having shoulder surgery. Starting pitcher Michael Pineda fought, going 6-12 with 4.82 ERA, the 7th highest in baseball. At the time limit of trading, the Yankees stood at 52-52 boring, assuring ownership to trade their most valuable asset and become sellers on the deadline.
New Era: Baby Bombers (2017-present )
On July 25, 2016, Yankee traded Aroldis Chapman to the Chicago Cubs for a group of players including top shortstop prospects Gleyber Torres, and traded Andrew Miller to the Cleveland Indians for outfielder Clint Frazier and pitcher Justus Sheffield. In addition, the Yankees trafficked 39-year-old enthusiast appointed Carlos Beltran to the Texas Rangers for a minor league prospect. The Yankees' decision to become a "seller" rather than a "buyer" on a trading deadline (a set trade, a veteran player for a young prospect) is unusual, given the typical Yankees present-winning approach. In discussing midseason trading, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said the Yankees recognized "the need to see the future."
In early August, Teixeira and Rodriguez revealed their plans to retire at the end of the season. Rodriguez played his last game on 12 August. In his fourth game, Teixeira had a grand slam against the Boston Red Sox, 409 and his last career at home.
The Yankees summon Tyler Austin and outsider Aaron Judge in August. They made their debut on August 13, hitting back-to-back home runs in their first bat career. Catcher Gary SÃÆ'¡nchez hit 20 home runs in just 53 matches, finishing 2nd in AL Rookie of the Year voting and setting a record at the time as the fastest to reach 20 career home runs. Sanchez, Hakim and Austin, and the prosperous Yankees farming system in general, dubbed "Baby Bombers".
After exchanging Chapman to the Cubs during the 2016 season, the Yankees signed him as a free agent during the off season 2016-17; Chapman approved a five-year contract, $ 86 million, the most beneficial for a relief thrower in history. In 2017, the Yankees ended the season with a 91-71 record. This is the first time the Yankees have won 90 or more games in a single season since 2012. They finished second in AL East behind the Red Sox, but took the first place of the AL Wild Card. Judge and SÃÆ'¡nchez are combined for 85 home runs. Sanchez finished with 33, the most by a Yankees catcher in a season. The judge led the American League with 52 home runs, breaking league's premier record Mark McGwire for most home runs by rookie in a season (McGwire hit 49 in 1987). The Yankees' starting blow was led by ace Luis Severino, who rebounded from his last season to lead the Yankees pitching staff. On July 1st, Clint Frazier made his MLB debut where he went 2 for 4 with a home run. The Yankees send Dellin Betances, Starlin Castro, SÃÆ'¡nchez, Severino and Judge to the 2017 Premier All-Star Baseball Game. The judges won Home Run Derby 2017, making the Yankees the most-ranked team to win the Derby Home Run in history.
After the 2017 All-Star break, the Yankees made a series of moves to acquire third baseman Todd Frazier, former Yankee relay David Robertson, Tommy Kahnle reliever, starter Sonny Gray, and starter Jaime Garcia. In 2017 AL Wild Card Game at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees defeated the Minnesota Twins 8-4 to move on ALDS; this is the Yankees' first playoff victory since 2012. In ALDS, the Yankees lost their first two games to Indian Cleveland before winning the last three games and taking the series. They played the Houston Astros in the 2017 Champions League Championship and lost seven games.
In the off season of 2017, the Yankees recruit Aaron Boone to replace Joe Girardi, as their new manager on December 4, 2017. On December 11, 2017, the Yankees traded Starlin Castro and prospects Jorge Guzman and Jose Devers to Miami Marlins to rule Giancarlo Most Valuable National League Player Stanton. A right-wing player who struck his right hand, Stanton hit a 59 home run and drove in 132 runs - the second major league - in 2017; his contract is the largest player contract in the history of professional sports in North America. On 12 December, the Yankees traded third baseman Chase Headley and Bryan Mitchell's right pitcher to San Diego Padres for outside players Jabari Blash; following the move, GM Yankees Brian Cashman stated that trade "creates [d] payroll flexibility".
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Distinctions
The Yankees have won the 27 World Series record in 40 appearances (which, since the first World Series in 1903, currently number average appearances every 2.7 seasons and championships each season 4.0); St. Louis Cardinals came second with 11 World Series wins. The total loss of the World Series Yankees, 13, leads Major League Baseball. The St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and New York/San Francisco Giants are the second in total World Series appearances with eighteen each. Of their 18 World Series appearances, the Dodgers have faced the Yankees eleven times, going 3-8, while the Giants face the Yankees seven times, going from 2 to 5. Among North America's main sports, the Yankees success was only approached by the Montreal Canadiens' 24th Stanley Cup Championship from the National Hockey League. The Yankees have played in the World Series against every winner of the National League waves except Houston Astros and Colorado Rockies.
Through 2017, the Yankees have the regular season's all-time winning percentage of 0.569 (record 10,175-7,719), the best of all the teams in baseball.
World Series Championships
The Yankees have won 27 World Series Championships. The most recent they came in 2009, under manager Joe Girardi, when they beat the Philadelphia Phillies in six games.
Team nickname
The name "Yankees" is often abbreviated as "the Yanks." The most commonly used nicknames are "Bronx Bombers" or simply "The Bombers", references to their homes and their productive beatings. The less-used nicknames are "Pinstripes", referring to the iconic features in their home uniform. Critics often refer to teams and organizations as "Evil Empire", a term applied to the Yankees by Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino in a 2002 interview with the New York Times. A term from the end of an anxious 70s team, the "Bronx Zoo", is sometimes used by critics, as well as "Damn Yankees", after a musical of the same name. Ironically, even many Yankees supporters refer to their team as "Evil Empire" as a badge of honor and even enjoy playing their team of "criminals".
Logo, uniform, and dress code
Popularity
Fan support
With repeated successes since the 1920s, the Yankees have since become one of the most popular teams in the world, with their fan base coming from further than the New York metropolitan area. The Yankees usually carry an audience raise in all or most of their various venues, attracting many of their own fans, as well as city-house fans whose interest is heightened when the Yankees come to town.
The first million fans season was in 1920, when 1,289,422 fans attended a Yankee match at Polo Grounds. The first 2 million fan season was in 1946, when 2,265,512 fans attended the match at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees have beaten the league's average for attendance at home 83 of the past 87 years (only during 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994 they did not achieve this). In the past seven years, the Yankees have attracted over three million fans each year, with an American League record of 4,090,696 in 2005, becoming only the third franchise in the history of the sport to attract more than four million in regular attendance seasons in their own averages. The Yankees are league leaders in "street presence" every year from 2001 to 2006.
One of the famous fans is Freddy Schuman, known as " Freddy Sez ." For over 50 years, he came to Yankees' home game with a baseball cap, j
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