I’ve followed baseball for a long time and never saw the 1951 Yankees as particularly important in MLB history. Perhaps because it was the last year of Joe Dimaggio and the first season of Mickey Mantle it would be important to Yankee fans, but of not a natter of huge of importance in MLB history. read more
The Yankees, along with their two brothers of New York baseball—the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants—owned major league baseball for much of the 1950s. Through the decade’s first seven years, every World Series winner represented Gotham—as did five of its losers. read more
The Yankees took a 3–0 series lead before losing four consecutive games, becoming the first team in MLB history to lose a best-of-seven series after winning the first three games. The 2005 season featured an AL MVP performance by Rodriguez, who hit a league-leading 48 home runs with 130 RBIs and a .321 batting average. read more