“I’d like to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee”, said Joe DiMaggio. Ralph Hauk and many other Yankees felt, “that a Yankee was the greatest thing that anyone in baseball could be”. Not only did the Yankees win 34 pennants, they also won 24 world championships. I couldn’t agree more with the author; the Yankees are the all American Team. No other team in history can compare. Baseball has become a part of the American culture and grows stronger as the years go by. George Stienbrenner, owner of the Yankees, said, that “owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. … No other baseball team has b

In 1927, the Yankees were the finest team in baseball history. “With their murderers’ row of right fielder Babe Ruth (.356), first baseman Lou Gehrig (.373), second baseman Toni Lazzeri (.309), and left fielder Bob Meusel (.337) at the heart of the lineup, the club won 110 games and led the American League in average (.307), runs (975), home runs (158), and pyrotechnics” (Sullivan, 40). Babe Ruth that year set the record of 60 home runs and kept his record for 34 years. He left his imprints on sports forever. Tommy Holmes, a New York sportswriter, says, “Years ago I stopped talking about the Babe for the simple reason that I realized that those who had never seen him didn’t believe me” (Sullivan, 234).

The Yankees are the most respected, talked about team in world history. They have never let a soul down. When they fall they always find a way to pick themselves up again. A Yankee is the greatest thing in baseball that anyone could be. The Yankees have won 24 world championships and this year they are in the running for another. Like George Stienbrenner said, “owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa” (Sullivan, 233).

In 1932, Babe Ruth had mad

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