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In January of 1903, American League president Ban Johnson, his pince-nez riding precariously on the bridge of his nose, raised a glass to toast his young baseball league, which had just received permission to purchase the Baltimore organization and establish a team in New York City. That marked the genesis of the fabulous Yankee franchise (known in 1903 as the Highlanders) as well as the opening chapter of Frank Graham s "The New York Yankees: An Informal History. "One of fifteen team histories commissioned by G. P. Putnam s Sons in the 1940s and 1950s, "The New York Yankees "traces the most...

This highly acclaimed study, first published in 1993, has been updated to the year 2000 and now includes some recent winning managers and completes the careers of others.