What do Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Yogi Berra have in common? They all played for the New York Yankees, duh!, one of the most celebrated teams in Major League Baseball history.
So, what was the team's original name and where did they play before Yankee Stadium? Against whom did they play their very first game? And in what year?
John DeSpagna, Nassau Community College Sport Management Professor, knows the answers and will take the audience through 100-plus years of Yankee history.
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