Why No Player Names on Yankee Uniforms?
By A Mystery Man Writer
Description
Have you ever wondered (or even noticed) why the New York Yankees are the only baseball team without the names of the players on the back of their jerseys? While other teams began putting names on the backs of jerseys in the 1960s, the Yankees did not follow the trend. Here
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