The Yankees have long had a reputation as the villain of baseball, but are they as loathed as they once were?
For 18 years, the Yankees were one of baseball’s best teams, and, without a doubt, the most hated. From their larger than life owner to their even larger payroll, there were myriad reasons that made the Yankees reviled nationwide. They were the team that opposing fans loved to hate, and they seemed to have permanently etched themselves into baseball’s history books as the villain.
At least, it appeared that way. Recently, it seems the Yankees are on their way to a kind of identification change.