New York Yankees is much more than a team, is the ninth most popular of the MLB, since it surely has more followers, the most winner of the World Series (27) and one of those with the largest budget in the Big Top.
However, to have achieved all that, a lot of work had to be done, therefore, the story behind ‘Los Mulos del Bronx’ is really incredible. Although, this time we are here to discover something that surely many are wondering Why is the ninth called the Yankees?
To answer this question, we must go back to 1904, specifically April 7, that day the first reference to the team was recorded. That date, the New York Evening Journal public: “Yankees will travel home from the south today”, to name the New York organization.
Pure history of the Yankees
One week after said publication, the aforementioned newspaper titled New York’s triumph over Boston Red Sox as follows: “Yankees vencen a Boston”.
All this makes historians think that the name emerged from journalists as a mechanism to shorten the real name of the team (Highlanders), becoming so popular that finally it ended up adopting the name “Yankees”.
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