The Yankee Legend Lost to History

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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No organization in sports takes their history more seriously than the New York Yankees. And it’s no wonder why. They’ve won 27 championships. Legendary names like Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Rivera, all are enshrined in their Monument Park in Yankee Stadium. But there’s one Yankees legend the organization hopes to forget: Dandy, their short-lived, and almost entirely forgotten, mascot. Jeremy Schaap tells Dandy’s story, whose brief existence has been all but scrubbed from pinstripe history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeremy, I summon you as usual because I have a sports historical query here, right?
0:07.2	Like I'm a Yankee fan.
0:09.4	You are.
0:10.6	I grew up on this planet, bathed in the history.
0:14.3	Uh-huh.
0:15.3	It just feels to me, and I want you to tell me if you feel this way as an actual sports
0:18.6	historian, it feels to me like nobody takes their history more seriously than the New
0:24.2	York Yankees.
0:25.2	No, there's no doubt about that.
0:27.2	And why wouldn't they?
0:28.2	I mean, they are far and away the defining franchise in Major League Baseball.
0:33.1	I mean, what they have done since 1922, exactly 100 years ago, when they won their first world
0:43.2	series, is incredible.
0:46.0	27 World Series Championships.
0:49.6	40 pennies.
0:52.7	But it goes way beyond that because it's not just about the numbers, it's about the history
0:57.0	that has been made by players wearing the Yankees uniform.
1:01.7	Dave Ruth, Lou Gerrick, Mickey Mantle, Joe Demagio, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, the
1:09.6	past.
1:10.6	The present.
1:11.6	There are nine players in the baseball Hall of Fame who never played a single game for
1:18.0	any team other than the Yankees.
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