Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 29, 2003
The More Things Change...

Rob Neyer has an excellent column on Yankee hatred today.


We're also still arguing about the Yankees. A few minutes after running across Cobbledick's column about the sacrifice "hit," I found this:

"In winning four straight American League pennants and world championships, the Yankees have not won popularity. If anything, as they travel along the path to a victory record unique in baseball, they are also moving through a gauntlet of unparalleled emotion that ranges from fear, envy, distrust, disgust and displeasure to downright hatred."

If you know your baseball (or at least your Yankees) history, then you know this could have been written only twice: not long after the 1939 season, or not long after the 1952 season, both of which ended with the Yankees winning a fourth straight World Series.

Those words were written by Milton Gross and published in the September, 1953 issue of "Sport." The very next month, the Yankees would win their fifth straight World Series, for a record that no one has really come close to breaking since. Gross' article was titled "Why They Hate the Yankees," and one wouldn't imagine that the Yankees were hated less after they won that fifth Series.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:26 PM | Fan Rant | TrackBack (0)