“We’re a fully operational Death Star,” Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman recently said in response to a question about the team’s ongoing offseason moves. It’s easy to envision a Ninja Cash action figure perched atop a Death Star playset, plotting the Yankees’ conquest of the baseball galaxy. What if we also imagine our favorite pinstriped heroes as some of the most popular Christmas toys to ever find their way beneath the tree?
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s or 80s probably had a Big Wheel. Before this iconic toy came along, tots who had outgrown their tricycles, but were not quite old enough for a full-scale BMX bike, had scant transportation options.