I want to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
—Joe DiMaggio
The New York Yankees won the World Series six times in seven years between 1947 and 1953. The five in a row they won from 1949 to 1953 are unmatched by any major league history team. A “Five-peat”—not done before, and not done since. The Yankees’ run of success occurred during an extraordinary time for baseball and America. The Allied Forces had just defeated Germany and Japan. U.S. soldiers came back. The baby boom generation began. Soldiers who played Major League Baseball had sacrificed their baseball careers to serve their country. Some of the greatest players in history served our nation during their prime years.
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