How To Use Yankee In A Sentence

We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
Looking at Yankee Stadium (home of the world champion Yankees) it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up.
Now that Gonzalez has rejected the Yankees, perhaps he can concentrate on turning a disappointing season into another banner year.
Chuck Greenberg, CEO of the Texas Rangers, slammed New York Yankees fans for their actio ns during the American League Championship Series in an interview on ... Chuck Greenberg, Texas Rangers CEO, Blasts Yankees Fans On Radio
It completed her expression; it was as a very halo of Yankee saintship crowning the woman who in despite of poverty and every discouragement had always hated, to the very roots of her hair, anything like what she called a "sozzle;" who had always been screwed up and sharp set to hard work. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.

And about 5 o'clock in the eavning we could see the Yankees a marchen up on the other side of the river by regiments and most all went back from on this Side of the river and General Earley thought that they was all a going back and taken all of his men but a Louisiana Bregaid and started to reinforce General Lea And about the time we had gone 6 miles they come The diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,
Burnside, who loved facial hair and from whom the word sideburns originated, was here briefly in 1865 when more than 30,000 Yankee soldiers poured into town at the end of the Civil War. News & Record Article Feed
Silencing a stadium is an amazing feeling, but not like hitting a home run in Yankee Stadium. USATODAY.com - Yankees agree: Homers at home special
The spin on the spin: Helped by an MLB lead-in, as Fox moved the final innings of Yankees-Red Sox to its FX cable channel to make way for the race. Selected weekend TV ratings and news
Those who mentioned the subject were unanimous in voicing the wish that Casey Stengel, recently fired as manager of the New York Yankees, would be field manager of the new team here. 50 years ago, the Senators left and arrived
Matsui finally gained some redemption in the fifth, singling home Williams from second after the Yankee centerfielder had doubled.
Thought of as a minor pickup at the trade deadline, Kerry Wood has shined in pinstripes since joining the Yankees, allowing just two runs in 26 innings pitched. Is Kerry Wood a Ticking Time Bomb in the Bullpen?
Adam Lee burst into the crowd and pulled the bleeding Rebel from the battered Yankee.
The first shot from the "Conestoga" struck the water a few feet from the "Yankee," and, ricochetting, plunged into her hull. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
She was not some Yankee, communist troublemaker with long hair and tattoos carpet-bagging her way through the State.
Reportedly, he's close to a deal with the Giants, while the Yankees have yet to make an offer.
In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last? Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
Reportedly, they've upped their offer to seven years via SI's Jon Heyman, who adds: #yankees in the clear drivers seat for cliff lee. hey, the mets did get boof bonser. Peyton Manning, Cliff Lee and Carl Crawford, Red Sox vs. Yankees, Jets vs. Giants (almost)
They had been lifted from a garbage can used by bureaucrats in some Soviet Russian Consulate, pilfered by what old British spy novelists used to call a "charwoman", in Yankee parlance, a janitor. Richard H. Smith: Could a California Budget Fix Threaten National Security?
But if the Yankees haven't won a World Series since 2000, why should their defeat this year signify anything?
And you'll never know the joy that fans in the rest of the country will experience when the fluke happens and the Yankees lose this year.
Why oh why oh why did the Yankees think it was wise to pay $82.5 million to this 34-year-old pitcher, who has proven himself so unreliable and ineffective that the mere mention of his name causes unflappable New Yorkers to seethe? Sympathy for A.J. Is Not Tolerated Here
I know his nick is short for “Melchior”, but I can’t help seeing the name of a certain Yankees player as “Melky Loads”. Yanks-Angels: Game 2 | ATTACKERMAN
He said that we of the South had descended from the royal and aristocratic blood of the Huguenots of France, and of the cavaliers of England, etc.; but that the Yankees were the descendents of the crop-eared Puritans and witch burners, who came over in the Mayflower, and settled at Plymouth Rock. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
He was funny, witty, and his malaprops were almost as legendary as his Yankee teammate Yogi Berra's.
I went to see the National Theatre's presentation of Arthur Miller's 'The Last Yankee'.
I occupied a friend’s sofa and watched the Yankee game while seven or eight of my buddies pregamed.
The BU Terriers are the Yankees of the tournament, having seized the silver pot 24 times.
The party who dug the parson out after a snow-storm, verily got their reward, a sort of prelibation of the visionary sweets of that land, flowing not, according to the Jewish notion, with milk and honey, but according to the revised version of Yankeedom, with milk and rum. William Lloyd Garrison
With the game now 9-4, it looked like a laugher in the Yankees favor, the Bronx Bombers finally stepping on the Sox's collective neck.
They are giddy with jetlag and an unspecified number of rum swizzles (an evening ritual) from the Yankee Clipper.
With the Mariners and Yankees on satellite television every morning, the ratings for nighttime telecasts plummeted.
If so, the major Latin-American directors are not gilded wetbacks, fleeing home in search of the Yankee dollar.
The penchant for booing by baseball spectators probably reached its lowest level of uncouthness in 1985 when the first-place Toronto Blue Jays met the second-place Yankees in the opener of a crucial four-game series at Yankee Stadium.
Not to mention he accomplished this playing his home games in Yankee Stadium, a difficult park for righthanded hitters.
In Game Seven, the Sox took the lead early and stayed ahead, defeating the Yankees 10-3.
y'all: contraction of "you all," a more musical, streamlined, unisyllabic take on the 2nd person plural than the northern phonetic catastrophe "you'ze guys." but y'all is a sadly misunderstood contraction, all too often torturously overused in fictional settings wherein "southernness" must be conveyed. in fact, y'all is rather more complicated than a mere drawling exercise in vowel manipulation, and only an ignorant yankee would treat it as such. Cherie puts her M.A. to marginally good use
MINNEAPOLIS Alex Rodriguez is doing it the New York Yankees way this October and is taking major steps toward something he has never done in pinstripes: help win a World Series. Suddenly, Yankees' A-Rod is a playoff hero
The Yankees, according to team officials, went so far as to "winterize" 1,200 television sets exposed to the elements in the new building. Chicagotribune.com - News
I don’t Dem Yankees an’ dat big gub’mint shaw is evil. Matthew Yglesias » Politics and Investment Bias
Many black teachers were themselves once students of the typical Yankee schoolmarms.
The US $183 million Yankees are struggling mightily at the plate, leaving their fans restless.
Report Abuse let us yankee fans enjoy our title regardless of how much money they pay their players, steroids are the past of most teams not only yankees just some players were able to cover their tracks alot better than others. as to how much front office pays the players i have a question for you sore losers if there was twenty companies that did the work you do would you go to the company that pays more and is recognized as an elite company or would you go to the company that pays half-butt and known as a LOSER Yahoo! Sports - Top News
Or perhaps those who would benefit most from Imran Khan's wise suggestions are the timid little satrap/'allies' of NATO who would sooner waste their wealth, consign their sons to foreign graves and provoke generations of revenge attacks than tell a ranting yankee general at the NATO meetings to depart and leave the rest of us and themalone. Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan
For example, John (a Yankees fan) premeditates, with malice aforethought, to kill Mark (a Red Sox fan), because John is still angry about the 2004 ALCS. Waldo Jaquith - Point/counterpoint on hate-crime legislation.
Whether it's wisest to fight this thing like the legislature has done, rouse the North against us and bring the whole Yankee Army on us to cram the darky vote down us, whether we want it or not.
On the street in front of my present home, twenty thousand Yankee soldiers marched down the Old Spanish Trail in pursuit of General Alfred Mouton and his boys in butternut, their haversacks stuffed with loot, their wounds from a dozen firefights still green, their lust for revenge unsated. The Glass Rainbow
Thousands of people lined Broadway to cheer the Yankees and celebrate their World Series triumph.
Far from being an isolated port, one early nineteenth-century view of Monterey harbor shows a Russian brig, a Yankee schooner, and another ship at anchor.
Van Halen's Panama cranked from the clubhouse speakers and the stench of victory cigar smoke hung in the air as the Angels celebrated their American League Division Series upset victory against the favored Yankees three games to one. USATODAY.com - If Angels ignite, it's from Eckstein's spark
The following passage from Kiplings American Notes, ch. i, will be recalled: Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee schoolmarm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern states are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 1. General Characters
The pattern calls for 100g of green worsted weight, and 100g of the Canadiana is 182 m (200 yards for my Yankee neighbours).
Dad has been goading mom all day, making cutting remarks here and there about the Yankees.
Both have succeeded under pressure, even producing impressive postseason performances against the Yankees.
He was funny, witty, and his malaprops were almost as legendary as his Yankee teammate Yogi Berra's.
He is currently a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team.
So did my New England Yankee public schoolmarms, but they and their policies have passed out of the culture and even the law.
Two weeks later, having beaten the Yankees in an uproarious division series, they lost the American League Championship Series in six games to Cleveland, and the Mariners went home.
Randy Choate (0-1) allowed one run and two hits over 1 1/3 innings to take the loss in his third outing since being demoted from the New York Yankees. International League Baseball - Columbus vs. Toledo
the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th
Based on the cumulative length of every Yankee game Rivera has played in his career and the average amount of time it takes him to deliver a single pitch 1.7 seconds, it's possible to make some back-of-the-envelope estimates about how the all-time saves leader has spent his days. Meet Baseball's All-Time Sit Leader
For two cents, I'd dig up all the Yankees and throw them in the city dump!
The Yankees came in streaking, overcoming a 21-29 start to win the AL wild card. USATODAY.com - Baseball - Cleveland vs. N.Y. Yankees
The Yankees made a comeback attempt that fell short, and a stunned crowd, which had been amped to celebrate a World Series trip, filed out.
Unfortunately, the Yankees have been left with their iffiest rotation in years after Pettitte called club owner Hal Steinbrenner with the news that he had decided to retire after 16 marvelous seasons. SI.com
So he goes out and wins 20 games and is stellar in the play-offs and now the Yankees have to sign him or they look like schmucks.
Slow Out of the Gate Derek Jeter's 3-for-18 start this season for a .167 batting average matches the worst 18-at-bat stretch to begin any of his 16 full seasons with the Yankees. Have Pitchers Figured Out Jeter?
One of his wooden-made yankee clocks is here – its case displaying "a most elegant picture" of Cupid, in frilled trowsers and morocco boots, the American prototype of the little god not being allowed to appear so scantily clad as he is generally represented. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
The Yankees stumbled into the playoffs in ghastly fashion. Boss wisely banked on Yankee pride
To fill Berkman's roster spot, the Yankees recalled infielder Eduardo Nunez from Statesman.com - Highschool
What looked like a sure win in my first game at Yankee stadium now looked like defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Go Yankees!
Those who had seen the Yankee's crew at work in their snaky carvel-built boat said that no one else was in it. Great Sea Stories
De niggers soon 'skiver' dat he wuz a Yankee, en dat he come down ter Norf C'lina fer ter learn de w'ite folks how to raise grapes en make wine. The Goophered Grapevine
The Yankee Group projects steeper year-over-year growth for satellite, broadband wireless and other technologies.
The Vermont Yankee, Vermont's aging nuclear reactor that sits roughly where the borders of Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts meet, is beset with problems -- including multiple leaks of radioactivity. John Odum: For Good or Ill, Vermont's Election Will Impact Millions of Other New Englanders
Shane Spencer, Yankees Reuters New York Yankees left fielder Shane Spencer The rise: He earned the nickname "Roy Hobbs," when he hit 10 home runs in 54 at-bats in the last two months of 1998, the year he made his debut at age 26. The Pan Has Flashed Before
But it was the Yankee bullpen which really let things get out of hand.
In fact, the highest-rated hour of Game Six came after Arizona had all but run away with the game, almost as if America was taking some sort of sick pleasure at watching the Yankees take a pasting.
Time was ineffably precious -- there was every reason to suspect Yankee guile, which is said to be nowhere more fertilely exhibited than in their conduct of the blockade; but it was deemed possible, after careful scrutiny, that the vessel might be on fire. Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina
We should yerk the yokel of a Yankee with the knout.
A collection of short stories, On the Yankee Station, appeared in 1981 and was followed by An Ice-Cream War, a serio-comic tale set in East Africa during the First World War.
A-Rod digging into a late lunch/early dinner (linner? dunch?) with his lawyer at the Palm on Monday afternoon after the Yankees 'visit to the White House. Hey, isn't that...?: Rosie Perez, A-Rod, Kal Penn, Erica Jong
But at least you'll have shown up those Yankee imperialists!
But the complicating wrinkle is that Buddhism has been remade by Yankee imperialists before.
Not rooting against the Yankees, per se, but not feeling awful that Clemens was obviously going to be pulled from the game.
Take the colorful effusiveness of Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and the ferocity of the late Yankee skipper Billy Martin, and you begin to get a picture.
He tinkered with offers and counter-offers, and not just with the Red Sox and the Yankees.
Creed was a gumsucker of about sixty made famous during the war for ripping out Yankees' intestines and force-feeding 'em back to 'em. Screaming Woman - Excerpt
In an earlier issue of Baseball Digest, it was stated that Bernie Williams of the Yankees is one of seven switch-hitters to win a batting title in the majors.
By blanking Chicago, it was the fourth consecutive shutout, a feat that had been accomplished in the American League by only the 1903 Indians and the 1932 Yankees.
Yankee-Gentile and Jew, and his blarney was a commodity that stood him in good stead. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
They\'ll focus on Pedro\'s history of baiting Yankee fans, of Yankee fans\ 'own chants of \ "Who\'s Your Daddy, \" and of Pedro\'s mixed track record at Yankee Stadium. Jonah Keri: The Pedro I Know
Two years ago, I posed the question to the Yankees' manager about using the replay on disputed fair-foul dingers.
Ain’t you-uns goin’ to teach the Yellett outfit ther spellin’, writin’, and about George Washington, an’ how the Yankees kem along arter he was in his grave an’ fit us and broke up the kentry so we had ter leave our home in Tennessee an’ kem to this yere outdacious place, where nobody knows the diffunce between aig-bread an’ corn-dodger? Judith of the Plains
He started in the 1970s by placing a free ad in Yankee magazine, inquiring about old road maps.
* In my yankee opinion, the best use of okra is as an ingredient for puke. Notes on the Vomit-Colored Rifle
But that Yankee celebration in Toronto looked friskier than normal. Yanks' Poker Table Has Wobbly Legs
To appease the tribal gods, Sipsu, the chief's daughter, is chosen to be sacrificed and while three of the four men chose not to interfere, one of them, named Hitchcock ( "there was a certain chivalric thrill of warm blood in him, despite his Yankee ancestry and New England upbringing"), determines that he will not to let Sipsu die. “Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
It was left to the Yankee, Eli Whitney, to invent a machine which would make it profitable for southern farmers to grow short-fibered cotton to supply the busy factories of Europe.
A few days ago, after a substitute shortstop misplayed two routine balls to help lose a game, Yankees radio announcer John Sterling declared, "If it's the ninth inning of the seventh game of the World Series with bases loaded and the score tied, I want the ball hit to Derek Jeter. Over the Mountain, Over the Hill?
Marc Donato portrays a New York teenager who becomes a batboy for the Yankees.
For one moment the spectators stared in mute astonishment; but then the discovery of the Yankee's cheatery drew from them a peal of laughter which seemed likely to be inextinguishable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
But there was a certain chivalric thrill of warm blood in him, despite his Yankee ancestry and New England upbringing, and he was so made that the commercial aspect of life often seemed meaningless and bore contradiction to his deeper impulses. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
We meandered through the men hawking Rolexes and Yankees knit caps, our coats and scarves wrapped tight to combat the brisk wind coming off the water.
Now, I ain't no Yankee and I didn't badmouth Texas. I've had it with your left wing rag!
The Yankees swept a four-game series from the Blue Jays.
The Yankees themselves, and the stadium, are steeped in glory and history.
Because the Yankees had no interest in meeting MacPhail's demand for five players or Sosa's desire for a contract extension.
The concept the world had yesterday was that of the unknown island submissive to the Yankee empire, a country without independence, a Yankee semicolony. CASTRO ADDRESSES SOVIET TECHNICIANS
So Derek Jeter has apparently run afoul of another one of his gabby Yankee bosses, Hank Steinbrenner—not for an incendiary comment or an off-field indiscretion never that! Extreme Makeover: The Derek Jeter Edition
Gehrig launching moonshot after moonshot, the Yankees had intimidated the singles-hitting Pirates into submission.
Only 5 of the Yankees 14 runs were earned as the four-game series ended in a split.
To make up for a rainout in June, they played at Shea Stadium in the afternoon, then at Yankee Stadium the same night.
The preceding pages note the rapid and vast growth of the Union navy; but the South misjudged -- until error had proved fatal -- that enterprise and "grit" of Yankee character; that fixed steadiness of purpose which forced both, ever, into most resultful effort. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
He consistently reached a mid-90s velocity he hadn't shown the Yankees in ages, making his devastating changeup all the more effective.
Sotomayor has mamboed with movie stars, exchanged smooches with musicians at the White House and thrown out the first pitch for her beloved New York Yankees. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Suddenly as dey passes de bank out rides two mens frum Wheeler's calvary an 'dey gits in de middle o' de street one of de hosses wheels back an 'de man shot right at de Yankees, den he flewed frum dar. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
Although the game was deadlocked at 4-4 after the fourth inning, Flaherty's sixth-inning blast put the Yankees firmly in the driving seat.
There was enough pride and quiet admiration to fill Yankee Stadium, right there on either side of the fence in left field.
At least for Yankees, it is a very “romantical” spot and most of us dream about traveling there. Cambridge Reads « Tales from the Reading Room
THE LAKELAND FLYING TIGERS TAKE ON the Tampa Yankees in a Florida State League Game today at Joker Marchant Stadium, Lakeland. News | LL | http://www.theledger.com
I focus on five families from very different backgrounds -- Swiss-German Mennonites who emigrated together in 1873, a Yankee family who moved to Dakota when the railroads first opened the land, an extended Norwegian family who came from a lovely village in the Telemark region, etc. An interview with David Laskin
The season is over, the playoff matchups set (although I for one was hoping to see a Yankees-D-Rays contest today) and it's time to bid aloha to 22 teams.
The Yankees keep changing their players around.
So, basically, "Yankee" is a term deemed so insulting that two separate groups who had it applied to them were so revolted that they in turn tagged another group with it. The Clog
But aside from all that, the notion that Yankee Stadium will render Giambi harmless is just plain silly. USATODAY.com - Yankee Stadium won't fence Giambi in
Up north, the Yankees are in disarray as former scions of industry go on trial and the stock market does a passable impersonation of a weapon of mass destruction.
Yogi Berra, another Yankee, gave him the most trouble until he got a tip from California pitching coach Marv Grissom.
Feisty Yankee bench coach Don Zimmer - a man who knows a few things about beanballs - charged at Martinez and appeared to lunge at him.
When the Yankee dollars arrive in the pockets of the Latin American oligarchies, the least they will be able to say if they are a bit honest is: Thanks, Cuban revolution, for you helped us get these millions. CEREMONY HONORING HIM FOR RECEIVING THE LENIN PR
The win snapped a four-game losing streak and pulled the Yankees (93-63) within half a game of the first-place Tampa Bay Rays, while effectively snuffing out Boston's (86-69) last glimmer of hope at making the playoffs. Yanks 4, Red Sox 3
PESCA: The Yankees would hang on to win, and the Ranger's champagne would stay corked, un-iced and unchronicled. Major League Baseball Tracks Memorabilia
It was yankee crabbedness that gave Homer his grip on the idea he had in mind. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
March 10, 2010, 4: 15 pm yankee says: metro11: ruufles: “treason” in the blogosphere is a far cry from DOJ memos actively pointing to your disbarment. The Volokh Conspiracy » My Contribution to the NYT ‘Room for Debate’ Blog on the AQ7 Argument
We took the subway uptown to Yankee Stadium.
He took his teams on barnstorming tours, once selling out Yankee Stadium four consecutive years.
She was a small fast and shallow draft centerboard schooner and her rig except for foretopmasts and yankee was identical to the Shrewsbury Packets.
I think yankeesue was referring to HSI because I went to their site, too, and found no staff listing, and even more disconcerting is that when I hit “contact us”, I got the following error message: Wonk Room » CD-ROM Converter Service Center HSI Doubles As The GOP’s Favorite ‘Academic Think Tank’
The Yankees wore caps honouring New York rescue workers and put singing firemen and policemen at home plate to give bravura performances of national anthems official and unofficial.
One of the employees I had become friends with over the summer grabbed me and dragged me over to the huge picture window that overlooked the playing field of Yankee Stadium.
An old upright Yankee patrician, a very gentle man in the office of secretary of war, one Henry Stimson, told the president of his good fortune in having for the job a soldier of such towering eminence.
In fact their offense leads the league in batting average and they are second behind the Yankees in runs scored. Five Teams With the Best Chance of Winning the World Series | myFiveBest
One particularly persistent youngster in pinstripes and a Yankees cap kept shouting: “McCain!” McCain Through the Yankee Prism - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
He was a dour Yankee, tall, confident, elegant, with a dry wit and aristocratic tastes.
It makes my heart patter, like that" -- she made her little fingers "patter" - "to be wooed even by a Yankee. The Ne'er-Do-Well
The Yankee takes a good long look at her, or at least at her to'gallants'ls, which was all we could see, and then tells us he'd made up his mind to have a slap at the chap during the night. For Treasure Bound
But the Yankees again are better constructed to win the regular season than the postseason.
They all played their parts, said Willie Randolph, himself a former Yankee co-captain and a Yankee coach under Torre. Leadership Void Looms in the Bronx
Last July, months before most Vermonters had heard the word tritium, Gundersen was poring over a Nuclear Regulatory Commission report when a mention of underground pipes at Vermont Yankee caught his attention. Burlingtonfreepress.com -
Gooden returned to site of his greatest glory and allowed two runs over five innings and Tino Martinez homered and drove in three runs as the Yankees took the opener of the historic home-and-home day-night doubleheader from the Mets, 4-2. Major League Baseball - Yankees vs. Mets
Tomorrow, the showdown with Asafa Powell and the Yankee Boyz shall take place.
The Yankees and the Red Soxs are battling it out for the championship.
The Yankees would move outside at the first sign of clement conditions. Six Weeks of Spring Training in...New Jersey?
Rasmunsen and the Yankee, who likewise had two passengers, portaged across on their backs and then lined their empty boats down through the bad water to Bennett. THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
For the Yankee vernacular is dying out of New England. The Yankee Myth
Expected to be sidelined a minimum of six weeks by the setback, Lee sounded off angrily against what he considered dirty tactics by his Yankee enemies.
the season's opener was a game against the Yankees
Wang Chien-ming of the Yankees bunts a runner to second base while facing the Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri on Friday.
In other words, the differences between a Yankee, a Southerner, and a plainsman were insignificant compared to the differences between a German, a Frenchman, and an Italian.
Time's up and he turns to the task of waking a nephew who's now snoring into his New York Yankees baseball cap.
‘That was a low-down Yankee trick,’ he intones.
Jordon, an 'de Yankees come an' he treated 'em from whiskey he had in a bottle, an 'tole 'em he had no more. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
OUCH - At Yankee Stadium, the concessionaire co-owned by the New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys, and Goldman Sachs allegedly pockets the 20 percent service fee attached to food and drink in violation of New York law, according to a class-action lawsuit filed against the company by three Yankee Stadium servers this week. HUFFPOST HILL - Senators Behaving Badly
Mitigating Factor: Her succubine presence and presumed vagina dentata probably spared the country the hell of another Yankees World Series run. Chez Pazienza: One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008
The stripping of the corn gives rise among some people, to what they call a husking-bee, which, like all the other bees, is one of Yankee origin, and is not now so frequently adopted among the more independent or better class of settlers. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
Given these circumstances, Lorenzo's rhyming reproach to his Yankee public, if ungracious, is surely understandable.
After Girardi replaced Hughes with Mariano Rivera, shortstop Erick Aybar bunted Mathis over to third, and reached base when the Yankees closer tried to nail Mathis at third. One Season
Scratch that, great music -- because this one strikes the right balance of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's" experimentalism, "Sky Blue Sky's" mellow vibe and the unease that permeated "Summer Teeth. The Daily Times News Headlines
He was due to pitch the first ball of a crunch baseball match in New York between the Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Clubs like the Yankees and Red Sox are no longer the only players in the free-agent game.
The Yankees held a meeting last night to vote on playoff shares.
Charley must have "osculated it," as a Yankee would say, to some purpose. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
Posada and Girardi had what each described as a heart-to-heart meeting Sunday at Yankee Stadium before the team finished its three-game series against Boston. Posada Apologizes but Sits Against Sox
On paper, the Yankees and Girardi are in considerably better shape than they were while winning their 27th World Series title last year. Yankees are always dangerous, but now they're armed
Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin batted leadoff for the NL and got the first whiff of Martinez's mastery, but he came through on his next at-bat by driving in Burnitz with a third-inning single off the New York Yankees 'David Cone. NL players relish Fenway feeling
He took his teams on barnstorming tours, once selling out Yankee Stadium four consecutive years.
Note that the bulk of complaints about his playoff shortcomings come from aggrieved Boston fans (such as this sniveler) amid the Red Sox 86-year wait for a championship, and entitled Yankee fans expecting no less than one per year.
The absence of an ejection for Foy proved especially costly to the Yankees.
There would be a lot more Yankees in Sn Cristobal if our government, the travel agents, and the major media didn't exaggerate the dangers of going there. Letters to the editor
sloken a body on hot days"; their contempt for tomatoes, so fine to look at with their sunny colors and so disappointing in taste; the miserable cucumbers the "Yankee bodies" ate, though tasteless as rushes; the character of the Yankees, etcetera. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
• The final out: Luis Gonzalez's RBI single against Mariano Rivera over the Yankees 'drawn-in infield scores Jay Bell and caps a two-run rally, giving the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3-2, Game 7 win on their home field. USATODAY.com - Having a ball from Series could have consequences
Into the restored elegance of Yankee Stadium stepped Jones, oblivious to it all.
Buoyed by Logan's strikeout, the Yankees loaded the bases in the next inning, and scored three runs on a single, a double play groundout by Robinson Cano, and a Nick Swisher double that gave them the 3-2 lead. An August Win Has an October Feel
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee school-marm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern States, are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. American Notes
In particular, they claim the men around him got him liquored up and then convinced him the Yankees were attacking in order to persuade him to be the first to fire. Keeping Clear of the Pod-People: After Last Night's Speech
The Yankees'rotation , through a combination of injuries and ineffectiveness, had recently contributed anything but stability.
From his Indian half he had his love of tramping which made him choose the wandering trade of trunk pedler; his French half made him a good trader and talker; while his Yankee half endowed him with a universal Yankee trait, a "handiness," which showed in scores of gifts and accomplishments and knacks that made him as warmly greeted everywhere as were his attractive trunks. Home Life in Colonial Days
'she went fas ', Miss Scarlett, an'even dat nice Yankee doctah couldn'do nuthin'fer her.
But they are forgetting that Babe Ruth could pitch, yet the Yankees chose to use him as an outfielder.
Posada and fellow long-in-the-tooth Yankee Mariano Rivera seemed to have the most fun of any Yankees pregame, hamming it up with their old teammates during the exhibition in the morning. Yanks Don't Embarrass the Old Guard
Red Sox: Mike Stanley, a former Yankee, doesn't match presence of free-agent departee Mo Vaughn in the lineup, but he was productive (19 homers, 72 RBI). USA TODAY Latest news
Through the first five games of this series, the Texas Rangers have succeeded for the most part in stifling Mr. Rodriguez, the Yankees third baseman. Same Old Ghost Story
He's such a part of the Yankees, not seeing him in the lineup or hearing his name announced in the starting lineup is going to be weird. NYDN Rss
A day after winning the rights to negotiate with Japanese left-hander Kei Igawa with a $26,000,194 bid, the Yankees remained focused on acquiring another starting pitcher to go with him.
Gatling was the prototypical Yankee tinkerer, a self-educated deviser of farm implements, including a mechanical planter that fed seeds from a hopper. Point and Shoot
The Indians and Yankees have had similar so-so seasons after their usual superb ones, but at least the Indians have a valid excuse.
The Yankees now have followed up with a call of "check" by gaining the rights to negotiate with a young left-handed pitcher from Japan, Kei Igawa.
As a boy he cared more for the Yankees' star Mickey Mantle than for a toy bear.
His two misplays in the ninth inning led to a loss for the Yankees.
After supper, she played the spinet for a time, filling the house with the rousing sound of "Yankee Doodle. The Devil's Bedpost

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