For the past couple weeks, we here at Pinstripe Alley have been running our Champions Series, profiling the 27 World Series winning teams in Yankees’ history.
Those 27 teams are far from the only notable ones in franchise history, so as companion pieces, I’ve been looking at some of the teams that came brutally close to adding to that total. (Here is part one.) As we continue to go through the championship winners, here is a look at four more teams that nearly got there too.
The Yankees were going for a six-peat when they started the 1954 season, but it became clear early that it was going to be a difficult task, and not because they were a bad team.