The Yankees have often been accused of being a hardheaded, hardhearted organization of unsentimental businessmen with a bunch of talented but mechanical ballplayers carrying out their functions in the field. This isn’t so at all. We have simply always realized that modern-day baseball is a highly practical enterprise that has to be run systematically, and this includes everything from operating a good restaurant for members of the Stadium Club to two-platooning on the field when the circumstances demand it. But don’t you believe that there’s no sentiment left on the Yankees! It’s knitted firmly into that famous pin-stripe uniform, and if you saw Mickey Mantle cry after the last game of the 1960 Series, as he did in the clubhouse, I think you’d agree that we have plenty of heart and spirit. Maybe we don’t reveal it as readily as some others do over the course of the season, but it’s there, all right.

- George M. Weiss, 1961

(photo by George Silk, 1958)