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New York Yankees Thesis

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New York Yankees Baseball
One of the most the traditional sports ever has to be baseball. Baseball has so many great traditions over the years and has some of the most dedicated fans in all sports. The team that sticks out the most from the bunch would have to be the New York Yankees. The New York Yankees are a professional Major League baseball team. They can be considered one of the most prestigious and decorated baseball franchise with 27 World Series championships and 40 American League Pennants. In this paper, New York Yankees baseball will be defined and will also give people, who are somewhat of baseball fans some knowledge about baseball and the prestigious Yankees organization.
Popularity
The Yankees being persistently successful has caused them to be one of the most popular …show more content…

Most of their fans come from the New York city area. The Yankees are known to bring in a tremendous number of people per season, also bring in many people for a team’s road game. Its recorded the Yankees being number 1 in road attendance for 3 consecutive years from 2002-2004. Also, they have never been outside number 7 in overall attendance for the MLB since 2001, and have been number 1 multiple times since then. This franchise is responsible for being the first team to draw in 1 million fans in a season (1,289,422) in 1920. Also in 1946 the Yankees were the first team again to draw 2 million fans in a season to their home games at 2,265,512 fans.
Rivalries
Rivalries are considered as one of the things that have made sports great, and the Yankees are involved in 2 of the biggest rivalries in all of sports. Two of the biggest rivals of the Yankees have to be no doubt the

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