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            The year was 1903 when the beginning of what has become to be the greatest and most successful major league baseball franchise. At that time the New York Yankees were known as The Highlanders. Two owners of the Highlanders designed and built a ballpark for them with the name of Hilltop Park. They later played their first game on April 22nd.  In that first year the Highlanders went a respectable 76-62 under Hall of Fame Manager Clark Griffith.
       In their second season in 1904 the Yankees chased all year long for first place in the American League East Division. They were wearing the crown of first place until August. They gave it back around the end of August to what was soon to be their most hatred rival in all of baseball and what was considered as in all of sports the most fierce rivalry ever the Boston Pilgrims which later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Highlanders finished of the season with a record of 92-59.A much better and improved record of last year. In the year 1913 after sharing the stadium the Polo Grounds with the New York Giants (later known as the San Francisco Giants) the Yankees were made a brand-new Yankee Stadium just across the Harlem River in the Bronx.
    Now were moving more up in the present. It’s the year 1920. In this year the team now called the New York Yankees made a move that would forever leave a hurt on the Boston Red Sox and would change the whole sports nation. On the date January 3rd the Boston Red Sox sold to the Yankees who would become a hero and legend to sports fans, George Herman Ruth who we all know as Babe Ruth. That move made the Yankees the greatest dynasty in all of sports leaving the Red Sox to never win another championship in 86 years. That dreadful   streak was known as “the Curse of the Babe”.
    In just his first year Babe Ruth smashed 54 homeruns establishing a new record. Nearly doubling his original record of 29 he made just a few seasons ago. The new Yankee Stadium would be referred to as the house that Ruth built considering that that’s where he did most of his damage as a ball player and his ability to attract fans from all around the country to watch him play. At the end of the season the Yankees won a remarkable 9 games just coming up 3 games short of the pennant.
    Now moving up to the 1970’s where a lot of success for Yankees has been made. New York made a big move by having George Stienbrenner run their team. George was a man of his word making the Yankees a huge success. If he wanted something George would go ahead and get, still does it to his day. The Yankees were lucky to draft legendary catcher Thurman Munson in the 1970’s. Munson was the rookie of the year his first year in the big leagues. In the year 1974 the Yankees signed a piece of dominance to their organization by signing Hall of Fame pitcher Jim “Catfish” Hunter. Another big addition to the Yanks was manager Billy Martin after original manager Bill Virdon was fired. Martin’s life ended only 20 years later in a tragic car accident due to drunk driving.
    Getting more ahead, we are now in the 1990’s. The Yankees would draft a soon to be legend Derek Jeter who won rookie of the year his first year in the bigs. The Yankees signed new manager Joe Torre who would when his share of world series in that decade. The Yankees later signed Japanese import Hideki Matsui who where he was from was known as God Zilla. Nowadays the Yankees are still making a huge name for themselves establishing a new team. As in new team I mean new manager (Joe Giraddi), new players (Shelley Duncan, Phillip Hughes, Ian Kennedy Melky Cabrera and other young guns), and as hard as it is to belief the man made of money and power George Stienbrenner stepped down as owner making his son Hank Stienbrenner the new sheriff in town.








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