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The Baltimore Orioles after having been shifted to New York for the 1903 season became the residents of the “Hilltop Park” located at 168th Street and Broadway. It is one of the loftiest spots in Manhattan. Due to this the team became known as the “Highlanders.” By 1905, the name “Yankees” started emerging in the newspapers. In 1913, the club shifted to the Polo Grounds and also officially changed its moniker to the by then commonly-used "New York Yankees."

The Yankees hold the peculiarity of being the first team to make the jersey numbers an eternal part of the uniform. Promptly other teams also followed the trend and by 1932, numbers became customary for all teams.  

  
 
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Initially the administration distributed the numbers according to the player's position in the batting order. This being the reason in 1929 the mentioned players wore the respective numbers: Earle Combs wore #1, Mark Koenig #2, Babe Ruth #3, Lou Gehrig #4, Bob Meusel #5, Tony Lazzeri #6, Leo Durocher #7, Johnny Grabowski #8, Benny Bengough #9, Bill Dickey #10

The most identified logo of the baseball’s history; the intertwined “NY” first appeared on the jerseys of the New York Highlanders in 1909. Factually the design was created in 1877 by Louis B. Tiffany exclusively for a medal to be awarded by the New York City Police Department to Officer John McDowell. John McDowell was the first NYC policeman to be shot in the hours of duty.

Since Bill Devery at one time was the proprietor of the club and also an ex-NYC police chief, he gave the Highlanders the privilege to adopt the design. Initially the logo appeared on both the cap and on the jersey's left sleeve. It also replaced the discrete "N" and "Y" which was a part of the Yankees uniform each season since 1903. The year 1905 was an exception since for that season only the "N" and "Y" appeared adjacently as a monogram on the left breast as a forerunner.

On April 12, 1912, the Yankees moved to their new ballpark. At that time their customary jersey was spruced up with black pinstripes. The black pinstripes became phenomena in the history of sports. However, the Yankees were not the first team with pinstripes. For the following two seasons, the Yankees gave up the look. In 1915, the pinstripes became a trend but this time the Yankees cap didn’t feature the look. Relatively the uniform remain unchanged. The Yankees experimented with various cap designs, which included pinstripes from 1903 through 1922.

  

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They eventually decided to carry out with solid navy cap with the interconnected "NY" insignia. In 1917, the "NY" monogram was removed from the Yankees uniform and only pinstripes look became the feature of the jersey. It was put back in 1936. As a matter of fact Babe Ruth became the only Yankee player who played his entire career without wearing the club's logo on his jersey. The Yankees uniform undoubtedly adds to the tradition of the team’s history by remaining unchanged for more than 60 years.

 
 

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