Y a n k e e s 5 CONTENTS CHAPTERS High on a Hill 6 Joltin Joe and the Mick 16 Rebuilding with the Boss 22 Four Titles under Torre 29 Chasing Number 27 37 AROUND THE HORN New York Fashion 12 The Babe Calls His Shot 14 The Streak 18 The One-Game Season 31 Extraordinary Endings 38 Pie in the Face 43 ALL-TIME YANKEES P Whitey Ford 8 C Yogi Berra 13 1B Lou Gehrig 20 2B Joe Gordon 23 3B Graig Nettles 24 SS Derek Jeter 30 LF Mickey Mantle 32 CF Joe DiMaggio 35 RF Babe Ruth 39 M Joe Torre 40 Index 48
6 Y a n k e e s HIGH ON A HILL n 1626 Dutch businessman Peter Minuit paid leaders of the Canarsee Indian tribe 24 in beads and cloth to purchase a small island along America’s Atlantic coast where he established the colony of New Amsterdam The Indians called the island manna hatta meaning many hills In the 1660s the British took over the colony and renamed it New York but the island retained its Indian name Manhattan Today Manhattan is the richest and most important part of New York City and the home of America’s main financial institutions best-known theaters and museums and most crowded city streets In 1903 Manhattan also became the home of one of the first teams in professional baseball’s new American League AL Because the club played its games at Hilltop Park atop one of Manhattan’s highest hills it was originally called the New York Highlanders Some sportswriters thought that name was too long and cumbersome however so they often used Yankees in their newspaper headlines When the club moved to another field in a lower locale Highlanders didn’t seem appropriate I
Night or day the streets of New York always seem to be bright and bustling which explains its nickname The City that Never Sleeps
