New York Yankees

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The New York Yankees are a baseball team from New York City. The club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901, and moved to New York in 1903.

In 1920 the Yankees purchased Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox and almost immediately became contenders, winning six league championships and three world championships in the 1920s. The Yankees would remain perennial contenders across multiple generations, having won championships in every decade except the 1980s since then. As of 2009, the Yankees have won forty American League championships and twenty-seven World Series titles.

Thirty-five Hall of Famers have worn their uniform, and they are almost invariably the top-grossing Major League team, both at home and on the road, year after year.

[edit] New York Yankees in Worldwar

The New York Yankees were losing to the Kansas City Blues on the day that the Race destroyed Indianapolis and President Earl Warren committed suicide. The Yeagers were watching that game on television when news of the attack broke.