New York Yankees (Baseball team)

LC control no.	n 81118918
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	New York Yankees (Baseball team) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Yankees (Baseball team) Bronx Bombers (Baseball team)
Found in	The New York Yankees, 1943. The Bronx Bombers, c1985: t.p. (The Bronx Bombers, a celebration of the 1985 New York Yankees) Wikipedia, Sept. 30, 2013 (The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in The Bronx borough of New York City that competes in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division. One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles. The team moved to New York City in 1903 and became the New York Highlanders [no publications in LC database], before taking the "Yankees" as their official name in 1913. The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, an LLC controlled by the family of George Steinbrenner, who purchased the team in 1973) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees>