In 1991 Yankee payroll ranked 8th among MLB teams-Forbes

"The New York Yankees are baseball’s richest and most storied franchise, but the first half of the 1990s was a very different era for the Yankees and their fans. The team’s payroll of $28 million ranked eighth among MLB teams in 1991.

• By 1993 the team was still being

• outspent by the Toronto Blue Jays and Cincinnati Reds.

Two years later the team drew an average of 23,251 fans to games, filling Yankee Stadium to 40% capacity. The Bronx Bombers failed to make the playoffs

• for 13 straight years."...

• Yankee operating income chart, "MLB Team Valuations," Forbes 2011

7/7/11, "Derek Jeter: The Yankees $5 Billion Man," Forbes, Kurt Badenhausen

Tweet Stumbleupon StumbleUpon