For the season, the Yankees acquired star slugger Babe Ruth and in his first year with his new team, the Yankees drew 1. 3 million fans to the Polo Grounds, outdrawing the Giants.

However, KMOX reacquired the Cardinals ' broadcast rights in 2011, and KDKA's FM sister all-sports station acquired the Pirates ' broadcast rights in 2012, in addition to New York Yankees games being renewed on WCBS-AM after the conclusion of the 2011 season.

On April 14, 1955 Howard became the first African American to play for the Yankees, and got a hit in his first at bat ; the team had been relatively late to sign black players, but finally acquired Vic Power and Howard.

Rogers was acquired by the Oakland Athletics from the Yankees for third baseman Scott Brosius in Billy Beane's first trade as general manager.

His performance there attracted the attention of the Yankees, who acquired him in.

The Giants acquired him to take the place of departed Hideki Matsui who came to the United States to play for the New York Yankees.

Following that season, he was acquired in a trade by the New York Yankees, along with Jeff Nelson and Jim Mecir, for Sterling Hitchcock and Russ Davis.

The New York Yankees had also been interested in Williamson ; that Boston acquired him from Cincinnati was widely touted as a coup for Boston general manager Theo Epstein.

The next day, he was acquired by the New York Yankees, who had four starting pitchers on the disabled list, for a player to be named later.

He had lost his right fielding job to Bobby Abreu, who the Yankees had acquired in a trade deadline transaction.

Two Red Sox led off the eleventh with singles, but Esteban Loaiza, who had struggled since being acquired by the Yankees mid-season, came in to pitch with one out and got Orlando Cabrera to ground into a double play.

On December 16, 2003, the New York Yankees acquired Vázquez from the Expos in exchange for Nick Johnson, Juan Rivera and Randy Choate.

When WCBS acquired the radio rights to the Yankees broadcasts in 2002, Kay moved to the debuting YES Network on television and Sterling remained on the radio.

Two other key players were acquired by the Yankees through trades.

The Yankees won his first game, lost the second game, and he was subsequently sent to the bullpen when the Yankees acquired Cory Lidle from the Philadelphia Phillies.

Crosby returned to the Yankees wearing jersey number 18 because his previous number, 19, had been assigned to the newly acquired Al Leiter.

Germán was acquired by the Detroit Tigers on July 5,, in a three-team trade between the Tigers, Oakland Athletics, and New York Yankees.

The Yankees acquired Granderson in a three-team trade on December 9.

McGee's big break came when he was acquired by the St. Louis Cardinals from the Yankees ' farm system on October 21, 1981 in a trade for pitcher Bob Sykes.

Two years earlier Cablevision, who at the time owned the Nets ' broadcast home, SportsChannel New York ( later known as Fox Sports Net New York, and now known as MSG Plus ), became the sole owner to the television rights of all seven MLB, NBA and NHL teams in the New York market when they acquired the competing MSG Network ( previously owned by Gulf + Western, Paramount Communications, and Viacom ), which had the Yankees broadcast rights since 1989.

After spending one year with the White Sox in 2008, the Yankees acquired him for the 2009 season.

Pennock stayed with the Yankees until 1933, pitching in five Series.

But there was no complaint from the Dominican crowds which lined Ciudad Trujillo's waterfront shouting, `` Vive Yankees ''!!

As roommates, teammates, and home-run mates, Mantle, 29, who broke in with the Yankees ten years ago, and Maris, 26, who came to the Yankees from Kansas City two years ago, have strikingly similar backgrounds.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

With this ultimate weapon, the two Yankees may have saved baseball from its dullest season.

He was obtained from the Yankees in exchange for Luis Vizcaino, Ross Ohlendorf, Alberto Gonzalez and Steven Jackson, with the Yankees paying $ 2 million of Johnson's $ 26 million salary.

The Orioles name had been used by previous major league baseball clubs in Baltimore, including the American League Baltimore Orioles franchise from 1901 – 1902 that became the New York Yankees and the National League Baltimore Orioles.

They also scoured the minor leagues for selections in the Rule 5 draft ( Paul Blair from the Mets in 1962, Moe Drabowsky from the Cardinals in 1965 ) and claims off waivers ( Curt Blefary, 1965 AL Rookie of the Year, from the Yankees in 1963 ).

The same year, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was reinstated from a lifelong suspension that was instituted by Selig's predecessor Fay Vincent.

Decades of mediocrity followed for the White Sox until the 1950s, when perennially competitive teams were blocked from the playoffs by the dynastic New York Yankees, with the exception of the 1959 pennant winners led by Early Wynn, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, and manager Al Lopez.

Cleveland finished 2 games ahead of Chicago and 3 games ahead of the Yankees to win its first pennant, led by Speaker's. 388 hitting, Jim Bagby's 30 victories and solid performances from Steve O ' Neill and Stan Coveleski.

There is the ever present threat of the Yankees who steal and burn, and at one point, Scarlett kills a Yankee marauder with a single shot from Charles's pistol leaving " a bloody pit where the nose had been.

Tal Smith returned to the Astros from the New York Yankees to find a team that needed a lot of work and did not have a lot of money.

The team would later became the Yanks in 1950, and many of the players from the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference were added to the team.

Similarly, the ace of the 1986 team, Dwight Gooden, threw his no-hitter for the Yankees ( in 1996 ), and David Cone, who starred for the Mets from 1987 – 1992, threw a perfect game later in his career, also as a Yankee.

The Astros, Rangers, Red Sox, and Yankees expressed an interest in signing him, but Clemens implied that he was finally retiring after his Team USA was eliminated by Mexico in the second round from the 2006 World Baseball Classic on March 16, 2006.

According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.

Winfield took over where Colbert left off, starring in the Padres outfield from 1973 until 1980, when he joined the New York Yankees.

Though he had offers from the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees while he was still in high school, his mother thought he was too young to leave home, so he signed up with the local minor league club, the San Diego Padres.

In the 19th century, Americans in the southern United States employed the word in reference to Americans from the northern United States ( though not to recent immigrants from Europe ; thus a visitor to Richmond, Virginia, in 1818 commented, " The enterprising people are mostly strangers ; Scots, Irish, and especially New England men, or Yankees, as they are called ").

In 1758, British General James Wolfe made the earliest recorded use of the word Yankee to refer to people from what was to become the US, referring to the New England soldiers under his command as Yankees: " I can afford you two companies of Yankees, and the more because they are better for ranging and scouting than either work or vigilance.