With the American and National Leagues making peace, the Baltimore Orioles move to New York and become the New York Highlanders.

Now known as the New York Yankees, the club buys Babe Ruth from the Red Sox on January 3.

The New York Yankees win their first pennant as Ruth beats his own record with 59 home runs.

Yankee Stadium opens on April 18 before a record crowd of 74,217. With Ruth hitting .393, the New York Yankees win their third straight pennant, then defeat the Giants to win their first World Series.

Ruth breaks his own record with 60 home runs as the New York Yankees win 110 games, then sweep the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.

Ruth's final New York Yankees championship ends with a four-game sweep of the Cubs in which, according to witnesses, he hits a "called shot" home run off Charlie Root.

Sick with the disease that will claim his life two years later, Lou Gehrig ends his consecutive­ game streak at 2,130 on May 2, but the New York Yankees roll to a fourth straight world title.

Joe DiMaggio hits safely in a record 56 consecutive games, leading the Yanks to their fifth championship in six years.

Casey Stengel is named New York Yankees manager and leads the Yanks to a pennant with a last day victory over the Red Sox. The Yanks then beat the Dodgers, four games to one, in the World Series, for the first of a record five straight world championships.

Mickey Mantle wins the Triple Crown to spark another New York Yankees title, but the hero of the World Series is Don Larsen, who throws the first no-hitter in the history of the Series, a perfect game against the Dodgers in Game 5.

After a season-long homer duel with Mantie, Roger Maris breaks Ruth's record with his 61 st home run of the season. New York wins 109 games and routs Cincinnati in the World Series.

Reggie Jackson is dubbed "Mr. October" after homering a record five times in the World Series victory over Los Angeles in 1977, the first of two straight six-game defeats of the Dodgers.

The New York Yankees retum to the top in 1996, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the World Series.

The New York Yankees win a record 114 games in the regular season, then clinches another championship.

The Yanks close the century with another title, punctuated by an 11-1 record in the postseason, then complete the three-peat defeating the Mets in five games to become the first team since the Oakland A's to win three straight world championships.

In one of the most dramatic World Series in history, the New York Yankees lose in seven games to the Arizona Diamondbacks. After snatching Games 4 and 5 in extra innings, the Yanks lose in seven.