Yankees

Yankees!

By Jack Mattingly

One of the Yankee players has the same last name as me, Don Mattingly. Don Mattingly’s real, full name is Donald Arthur Mattingly. Don won so many metals. Don throws and bats with his left hand. He was on the Yankees team from 1982-1995. In his last game, which was on October 1, 1995. he was 34 years old.

The Yankees have been playing since 1903. They came in fourth place during their first season. The person who managed the team was Clark Griffith. The first game the Yankees played was against the Baltimore Orioles.   

One of the worst years for the Yankees was 2014. They won 84 games but they lost 78.

Some of the nicknames for the New York Yankees are the Bronx Zoo, New York Highlanders, the Yanks, the Bombers, The Bronx Bombers, the Pinstripe, the Pinstripers among other nicknames.

Some of the years they won the championship were 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2009. They went to the championship four times in a row and won three times in a row. They got to the championship the most in the MBL. The Yankees were the first baseball team to three-peat as champions since 1872-1974.    

Whenever the Yankees played a home game they played it in a stadium called the Yankee Stadium in which they played from 1923-1973 and 1976-2008. It was called the Yankee Stadium until they moved it to another stadium in 2009 to now. The new stadium is also called the Yankee Stadium too.