NEW YORK YANKEES

New York Yankees

The New York Yankees is a Major League baseball team based in the borough of the Bronx, in the New York City, New York. The "Yankees" name is often shortened to "the Yanks". Their most prominently used nickname is "the Bronx Bombers" or simply "the Bombers", a reference to their home and their prolific hitting. A less used nickname is "the Pinstripers", in reference to the iconic feature on their home uniforms. They belong in the Eastern Division of the American League and lead Major League Baseball where they have won a total of 26 World Series championships and 39 American League Pennants. The St. Louis Cardinals and the Oakland Athletics are tied for second with 9 World Series victories each, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are second with 18 World Series appearances. The New York Yankees have more championships than any other North American franchise in professional sports history, passing the 24 Stanley Cups championships by the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. It is the only team that is represented at every position in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 1903, the team was first begun and came to be known as the New York Highlanders. At the time the team was owned by a couple of New York bartenders who laid out $18,000 to buy the Baltimore franchise and bring it north. For their first eighteen years in New York, the team had been finishing second in 1904, 1906, and 1910. They formally became the "Yankees" in 1912 with several great players passed through New York in those years including Wee Willie Keeler, Hal Chase, Roger Peckinpaugh and Frank Baker, but the Yankees were always also-rans. Then, the Yankees acquired Babe Ruth from the Red Sox and also brought along some of Ruth's more talented teammates including third baseman Joe Dugan and pitchers Carl Mays, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock and Bullet Joe Bush. During that time, Miller Huggins acted as the manager and guided the team to its first three pennants in 1921, 1922, and 1923. They played the New York Giants in all three series, losing the first two; winning in 1923, the year they moved into Yankee Stadium. Through the rest of the decade, the team hit a slow decline. Chaos in the front office resulted in a revolving door of managers, the bleeding of talent and a suspension of one of its players for misconduct. But despite all of this, the Yankees seem unlikely they can repeat again the length and breadth of their domination of the sport in the 21st Century.

The New York Yankees are considered America's most storied sports franchise which having past the rest of Major League Baseball envies. As rich as their history, in individuality and team glory, the Yankees have ventured on The Second Century winning and Bronx Bombing home runs at a greater getaway rate as ever before. The Yankee Stadium has been their permanent home since 1923 and has a capacity of 57,545 people. It was built on a five-sided, an irregular plot of land. This gave it a very distinctive asymmetrical shape. The Yankees are expecting to open their new home in 2009. Once the new stadium opens, most of the old stadium, including the above-ground structure, is to be demolished to become parkland.

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