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The New York Yankees are a New York based professional baseball team and are a member of the Major League Baseball’s (MLB) American League East Division. The New York Yankees’ tickets are currently among the most sought after but this wasn’t always the case. The Yankees didn’t win a in their first 20 years and only finished second two times. But their game changed when the Red Sox sold star pitcher Babe Ruth’s contract to the Yankees in 1920. Babe Ruth was very instrumental in the three appearances of the Red Sox in the 1916 to 1918 World Series championships. The New York Yankees’ ticket holders were pleased with the trade because this was to be the start of many victories for the Yankees. They went on to win twenty six (26) World Series championships. From 1923 to 2008 the Yankee Stadium was the team’s home ballpark and was also known as one of the most famous sports venues. In 2009 the team moved into another venue – a new stadium also known as the “Yankee Stadium”. Increase in sales of New York Yankees tickets has proven that they have a very large number of supporters.
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About The New York Yankees
This team is famous for having more championships than any other franchise in North American professional sports history, making the New York Yankees’ tickets the highest selling baseball tickets on the market. This club has also produced some of the most celebrated players in MLB history, including Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and DiMaggio. New York Yankees ticket holders are known to be very dedicated and very supportive of their team.
The franchise has also seen 44 of its players become Baseball Hall of Famers and retired the numbers of 16 of its players.
The fact that the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox are rivals is no secret - it is the fiercest rivalry in professional sports history. Aside from the huge revenue gotten from the sales of New York Yankees tickets, the YES Network launched in 2002 has also become a huge source of revenue for the franchise.
The Yankees moved to the Yankee Stadium in 1923. The stadium was the very first triple deck venue in baseball and had 58,000 seating capacity. Babe Ruth hit a home run in the first game at the Yankee Stadium, raising ticket sales immensely. This event earned the stadium its nick name - “The House That Ruth Built”. Later on that year, the Yankees faced the Giants for the 3rd straight year in the World series championships and they eventually defeated the Giants to earn their first championship.
In 1927, The Yankees featured a line-up that became known as the “Murderers’ Row” and most New York Yankees ticket holding fans considered this team to be the best ever in baseball history. The team won a then American League (AL) record of 110 games with only 44 losses, and also defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World Series. Babe Ruth’s also set a single-season home run record of 60 that year, a record which stood for 34 years afterwards.
The Philadelphia Athletics took the AL pennant every season for three years and won two World championships, this made New York Yankees ticket holding fans none too happy. However, Joe McCarthy became the team’s manager in 1931 he bought the Yankees back to the top of the American League. The Yankees Defeated the Chicago Cubs in the 1932 World Series, the first of 12 consecutive World Series game wins.
The New York Yankees won the World Series in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000, and many New York Yankees tick holding fans believe that the Yankees will win the World Series again.
The Yankees opened their new Yankee Stadium at the start of the 2009 season. The new venue quickly acquired a good reputation as a “home run-friendly ballpark” from New York Yankees ticket holding fans. This season, the Yankees set a MLB record by playing an error free ball for 18 games in a row from the 14th of May to the 1st of June 2009.
