The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York.

The Yankees are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League.

The Yankees lead Major League Baseball with 26 World Series championships and 39 American League Pennants.

The Polo Grounds burned down in 1911 and the Highlanders allowed the Giants to play in Hilltop Park during reconstruction.

Ruppert inherited a brewery fortune, providing the Yankees with an owner who possessed deep pockets and a willingness to dig into them to produce a winning team.

Most new players who would later contribute to the team's success came from the Red Sox, whose owner, Harry Frazee, was trading players to them for large sums of money.

Other important newcomers in this period were manager Miller Huggins and general manager Ed Barrow.

Ruth's multitude of home runs proved so popular that the Yankees began drawing more people than their landlords, the Giants.

In 1922, the Yankees returned to the World Series again, facing a second defeat at the hands of the Giants.

Yankee Stadium as it looked during 1928-1936In 1923, the Yankees moved to their new home, Yankee Stadium.

It was the first triple-deck venue in baseball and seated an astounding 58,000.

In the first game at New York Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hit a home run, which was fitting as it was his home runs and drawing power that paid for the stadium, giving it its nickname "The House That Ruth Built".

New York Yankees 2009 Anthem