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NY Yankees Trivia?
What year did they become the NY Yankees?
What was their name before the NY Yankees, and from what years?
What was their original name, and from what years?
Why did they change their name to NY Yankees.?
Why do they wear pinstripes for their home uniform?
How many home stadiums did they play in since being the NY Yankees?
Why doesn't their home uniform have the name of the player on back, where many other teams do?
I know what the answers, I amd curious to see what people post
10 Answers
- djLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Their original name was the Baltimore Orioles from 1901 - 1902.
They became the the New York Highlanders in 1903 but sports writers would refer to them as the Yanks and it caught on with the fans, as the Yankees would virtually steal players from the Red Sox throughout the 1910's. Most notably Babe Ruth.
The pinstripes look distinguished and cool so they never changed them.
They've played home games at Hilltop Park, the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, and the 1976 remodeled Yankee Stadium.
They don't wear names on their backs, because they are the most successful team ever, so you should just know who they are. Arrogant but true.
Did you know Yankee Stadium was the first ballpark to have 'stadium' in it's name?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Go to baseball-reference.com. You can find out some info on there. I think that site will tell you some info on the franchise. Its primarily a stat site though. Or just type in history of the NY Yankees. Just look it up, yo!
The Yanks don't wear names on the back of their jerseys, because back in the day, everybody knows the Yankees players by their number and they still do. But they never had names on their backs. Everyone knows the Yanks!
- LeftyLv 71 decade ago
around 1913
NY HighLanders
They changed their name to the Yankees because they were playing an exibition game sown south and someone yelled out, "Go home ya Yankees"..and the name stuck.
Two Stadiums - Yankee Stadium and Polo grounds
no name on back of uni - tradition
- 1 decade ago
Besides yankee stadium and the polo grounds, they also played at Shea Stadium while Yankee stadium was being re-modeled.
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- Anonymous5 years ago
Before they were at NY, they were at Baltimore, and they were called the Orioles. After that, they became the New York Highlanders, and after that, they finally became the Yankees.
- 1 decade ago
google these questions and find the answers yourself....
this is too much for me to go find for you..
do it yourself..
trivia is the right term for these questions, lets take it one further and really call it trivial.
who really cares anyway????
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If you know the answers, why ask the question?
This is not a message board or a blog. This is for people to find out answers to questions.
You are violating the rules.
