U.S.A where the MLB and base ball were created-No.2- By Masakazu Kimura

Masakazu Kimura

        This time, I would like to write my favorite baseball team New York Yankees which is in American league’s east division. I wish everyone know the team NY Yankees and if you guys don’t I will make you know. New York Yankees’ name came from Yankee, but do you know what Yankee is? Before explaining about NYY (New York Yankees), I would like to explain Yankee first. The meaning of Yankee is now the white people who are living in Northern east in United State and in other countries, they call all Americans “Yankee”. Naturally, this word came from the nick name of Dutch who were living in America. British people in America named them “Jan Kees” and eventually, it became “Yankees”.

        Back to the main part, NYY is one of the famous team around the world and richest team in MLB. Also, NYY won 27 World Series championship and 40 American league panels. World Series is basically the championship of MLB. This 27 and 40 number is the record of MLB and NYY is the team which got the title the most. Maybe most of the people know, but the best player ever in MLB “Babe Ruth” was in this team and Lou Gehrig, Yogi Berra were in NYY and was famous MLB stars. Now, Derek Sanderson Jeter is the most famous baseball player in NYY. This team has pretty long history, around 100 years. Baltimore Orioles was the first name, but this team moved to New York and changed its name to New York Highlanders. However, the owner of this team changed and on the same time, he changed the name of the team to New York Yankees. The number of fans is increasing every year and the number became more than 4 million. As I mentioned before, Yankees is rich and they got a lot of money. The reason is not only because the baseball team is in NY. Because there are many fans that supports Yankees all across the world and because they are actually paying money and supporting that team, NY obtains a lot of money and can spend that money to buy new players or upgrade their stadium or fan club.

Did you know that, there is another baseball team in NY?? That is New York Mets.

        New York Mets also have pretty long history like New York Yankees. Needless to say, Yankees is much older than Mets. First I have to apologize to Met’s fans. I’m really sorry to say, but Mets is doing horrible and they are actually weak and not doing well. Both NYY and NYM (New York Mets) are in New York and both teams have stadium in NY. However, the strength of team is totally different. Then, why? It is because of the number of fans. If someone tries to say NYY is strong because this team is in NY, he actually can’t say that. Of course, NY’s economy is very high so NYY might get more money than other team. However, if that so, Mets also get a lot of money and have to be strong. But in fact, Mets are not strong. Thus, comparing these two teams, it can say the more number of fan one team gets, the more money they will obtain.

        This is about New York Yankees and why they are strong and famous.

For people who want to watch the NYY’s play

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poNyniQ5eCY

References

l  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poNyniQ5eCY

l  https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=Yankees+picture&hl=ja&rlz=1T4TSHD_jaJP487JP487&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=otoGUMzSMo6TiQfSqfW6CA&ved=0CGAQsAQ&biw=1264&bih=582

l  http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=nyy&sv=1