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The 1913 squad, the first that went by the name "Yankees" The history of the New York Yankees Major League Baseball (MLB) team spans more than a century. Frank J. Farrell and William Stephen Devery bought the rights to an American League (AL) club in New York City after the 1902 season.
In the 19th century, the city of Detroit had a military unit called the Detroit Light Guard, who were known as "The Tigers". They had played significant roles in certain Civil War battles and in the Spanish–American War. The baseball team was called both the "Wolverines" and the "Tigers" in the newspapers.
Around the American occupation of Korea and the Korean War periods, Korean black markets that sold smuggled American goods from military bases were called "yankee markets" (Korean: 양키시장). [66] The term "yankee" is now generally viewed as an anti-American slur in South Korea, [67] and is often used in the exclamation "Yankee go home!"
The fourth line marks the legal merger of the American and National Leagues into a single Major League Baseball in 2000. World Series championships are shown with a "•", National League Pennants before the World Series are shown with a "^", and American League Pennants before the World Series are shown with a "#". No World Series was played ...
In 1990, the Yankees had the worst record in the American League, and their fourth last-place finish in franchise history. [ 262 ] During the 1990 season, Yankee fans started to chant " 1918! " to taunt the Red Sox, reminding them of the last time they won a World Series one weekend the Red Sox were there in 1990. [ 263 ]
From a team perspective, the golden age of baseball (using the years 1918-1964 as a guideline) was dominated by the American League's New York Yankees, [4] who won 29 pennants and 20 World Series titles between 1918 and 1964. [5]
The good news is the Yankees appear to have solid pitching backup waiting in the wings, including JP Sears, who has given up one run in 15 1/3 innings in the majors this year.
While the American League championship, and to a lesser extent the World Series, would be dominated by the Yankees, there were many other excellent teams in the inter-war years. The National League's St. Louis Cardinals , for example, would win three titles in nine years, the last with a group of players known as the " Gashouse Gang ".