Further, while my family had lived less than fifteen minutes from the Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, in 1940, we had moved to Brooklyn, setting up the scenario whereby I became a traitor, so to speak. Being a Yankee fan and living in Brooklyn was not easy, believe me. Even my younger brother, who would become a Brooklyn Dodger fan, took my Yankee rooting as the mark of a scoundrel. In the Yankee tradition, winning is expressed a bit differently. By and large, however, while there have been a run of bad teams on occasion, the Yankees contend every year.
Talent abounds in the organization like in no other.
Other teams also spend large sums of money, and are not as successful as the Yankees. Arguably, this is as a result of the manner in which the Yankees optimize opportunities to secure talent. Consider how matters now stand this season, which has less than a month remaining. While the Yankees acquired key players who helped carry them through the dog days of August and into the crucial games of September, their arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox, acquired several players who really did not seem to fit in. The New York Yankees are separated from other organizations in terms of the continuity of their greatness from generation to generation.