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New York Yankees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (10298 words) |
 | The Yankees are one of two major league franchises to operate in the city of Greater New York; the other team is the New York Mets of the National League, who are based in the borough of Queens. |
 | The 1949 Yankees team was seen as "underdogs" that came from behind to catch and surpass the powerful Red Sox on the last two days of the season, in a faceoff that fueled the beginning of the modern intense rivalry between these teams. |
 | The Yankees are the most recent major league team to repeat as World Series champions and after the 2000 season they joined the Yankee teams of 1936-1939 and 1949-1953, as well as the 1972-1974 Oakland Athletics as the only teams to win at least three consecutive World Series. |
| Team Yankee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (583 words) |
 | Team Yankee is a speculative fiction novel written in 1987 by Harold Coyle whose subject is the actions of a company-sized armor unit of the United States Army in the World War III scenario as depicted by General Sir John Hackett in his novel, The Third World War. |
 | Team Yankee is an armor-heavy company-sized unit (a "team" in Army parlance). |
 | Chapter 1: Stand-To The novel begins with Team Yankee deployed forward towards the frontier with the German Democratic Republic. |