Category: MLB

The New York Yankees are not just the most historic franchise in the history of baseball, but in all of sports, with 27 World Series championships and 40 American League pennants. With that, that they have so many historic and great players and it is hard to keep this list to just four. The tradition, the interlocking “NY” on their pinstriped jerseys, the love for them, the love to hate them mentality, and the success makes them the real “America’s Team” not those certain Jerry Jones-led Cowboys in the National Football League. Anyway, let’s get into the Yankees’ four greatest players of all time with plenty of honorable mentions.

The Washington Senators played for 60 seasons in the nation’s capital. If we ever have a 2020 season, it will be the franchise’s 60th in

Heading into the 2000s, the Red Sox were locked in an 80-plus year curse where they failed to win the World Series. After their World Series victory in 1918, the Red Sox failed to make it back to the promised land until 1946, then again until 1967, then again until 1975, and then again until 1986. Each time they made it back, they came up short. After their 1986 heartbreaking World Series loss to the Mets, the Red Sox fortunes started changing. They began making the playoffs more often, earning playoff berths six times from 1986-1999. However, the team knew they couldn’t stop at just making the playoffs, and when the 2000s hit, the Red Sox turned their 1900s misery into a 2000s dynasty.

Of course, the Red Sox had plenty of help along the way. With players the likes of David Ortiz, Nomar Garciaparra, Manny Ramirez, Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, J.D. Martinez, Pedro Martinez, Jon Lester, and Chris Sale on their roster at one point or another, it’s no surprise that the Red Sox made the playoffs ten times and won four World Series titles since 2000. Despite a ton of big-name talent, the Red Sox also got help from a few other sources that don’t get talked about often.