While the Yankees haven’t made any major changes to their logo in the last six decades, they made lots of changes to their logo almost every single year for the first eight years. Francesco Cordasco; David Nelson Alloway (1981). American Ethnic Groups, the European Heritage: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations Completed at American Universities. Scarecrow Press. p.119. Most linguists look to Dutch language sources, noting the extensive interaction between the Dutch colonists in New Netherland (New York, parts of New Jersey, and Delaware) and the English colonists in New England ( Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut). [13] The exact application, however, is uncertain; some scholars suggest that it was a term used in derision of the Dutch colonists, others that it was derisive of the English colonists. Burger hit a 421-foot homer in the second into the Chicago bullpen in left-center for a 2-0 lead. After the Yankees tied it on Higashioka’s RBI double and Calhoun’s run-scoring single, the White Sox regained the lead in the third. Ivy League universities remained bastions of old Yankee culture until well after World War II, particularly Harvard and Yale.

Kretzschmar, William A. Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (1994) As they are in the midst of a retool/rebuild type period powered (hopefully) by a youth movement, it should come as no surprise that the Yankees have a number of pre-arbitration players on the 40-man roster. Ranging from top prospects and highly-touted youngsters who look to make significant impacts in 2024 (Volpe, Domínguez, Wells, Peraza) to the members of the Scranton Shuttle (Weissert, Brito, Ramirez, Vasquez, etc.), this group will undoubtedly play a major role for the Bombers next year — although that role might just be as trade chips in a deal for somebody like Juan Soto. Players Yet to Reach the Majors How about the well known issues between Joe Garagiola and Harry Caray in St. Louis when they called Cardinals games in the late 1950s? White explained that “Joe was so popular and didn’t have to work his way up to the booth. Caray felt he didn’t pay his dues.” Gjerde; Jon. The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830–1917 (1999) online

Note: contract info from Spotrac; as the Yankees worry about luxury tax impact over total dollars, that’s the figure that we will use) The original Yankees diffused widely across the northern United States, leaving their imprints in New York, the Upper Midwest, many taking advantage of water routes by the Great Lakes, and places as far away as Seattle, San Francisco, and Honolulu. [22] Handlin, Oscar. "Yankees", in Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, ed. by Stephan Thernstrom, (1980) pp 1028–1030. Conforti, Joseph A. Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century (2001) online According to baseball legend, the Yankees started wearing pinstriped uniforms to make Babe Ruth look slimmer. However, this isn’t true- it was just the design they chose for the team.

We liked one other. We were over each other’s homes. When he was in a retirement home, I’d drive up an hour and a half (from his Philly area home) and spent time with him in New Jersey. We talked about life and baseball. He helped me a lot,” Bill reinforced. The New York Times described his work as an “easy colloquial style, studded with nuggets of pithy descriptions.” When Brooks Robinson handled a difficult ground ball seamlessly, White was on it succinctly, “Brooksie has soft hands.” Stollznow, Karen. 2006. "Key Words in the Discourse of Discrimination: A Semantic Analysis. PhD Dissertation: University of New England., Chapter 5. Arthur George Crandall, New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor, (F.A. Davis Company, 1922).The only thing missing from his resumé that may or may not make it a Hall of Fame career? A World Series ring! Why do the New York Yankees play in navy blue and white?