The franchise began in 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland. They competed in their first two years as the Baltimore Orioles. The struggling team was bought in 1903 and moved to New York. They were renamed the New York Highlanders. Sports writers started calling them the yanks or Yankees, and in 1913, they officially changed their name to the Yankees. In 1920, after years of losing, something big happened. The Boston Red Sox owner sold the slugger Babe Ruth to the Yankees to finance a Broadway musical. The Yankees quickly became a force to be reckoned with earning the nickname Murder's Row and many experts believe the 1927 Yankee team was the best baseball team to ever play with stars like Lou Gehrig and and Joe DiMaggio along with Ruth leading the
