the yankees became a baseball team called the new york yankees in 1913.
when did the yankees become a baseball team called the new york yankees?
1913
manhattan is the only borough in new york city that does not have a professional baseball franchise. the bronx has the yankees (american league) and queens has the mets (national league) of major league baseball. the minor league baseball brooklyn cyclones, affiliated with the mets, play in brooklyn, while the staten island yankees, affiliated with the yankees, play in staten island. however, three of the four major league baseball teams to play in new york city played in manhattan. the original new york giants baseball team played in the various incarnations of the polo grounds at 155th street and eighth avenue from their inception in 1883—except for 1889, when they split their time between jersey city and staten island, and when they played in hilltop park in 1911—until they headed to california with the brooklyn dodgers after the 1957 season. the new york yankees began their franchise as the highlanders, named for hilltop park, where they played from their creation in 1903 until 1912. the team moved to the polo grounds with the 1913 season, where they were officially christened the "new york yankees", remaining there until they moved across the harlem river in 1923 to yankee stadium. the new york mets played in the polo grounds in 1962 and 1963, their first two seasons, before shea stadium was completed in 1964. after the mets departed, the polo grounds was demolished in april 1964, replaced by public housing.
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the new york yankees are a major league baseball team.









































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bullet::::- new york yankees (nfl), a team that played in the 1926 american football league before competing in the nfl from 1927-28









































bullet::::- new york yankees (1936 afl), a team that played in the second afl in 1936 and 1937









































bullet::::- new york yankees (1940 afl), a team that played in the third afl in 1940 as the yankees









































bullet::::- new york yankees (1941), a short-lived member of the american association (football)
new york yankees (disambiguation)