MLB Showdown Obsession

 In sports, fatigue generally sets in for other fans when a certain team wins too much, especially in a row. That being said, there must have been lots of fatigue outside of the Bronx after 1953, when the Yankees broke their own record for consecutive titles. Today, even with it being a long time since their last title, the Yankees are in no short supply of haters. The Dodgers and Astros may be swapping around the crown of most hated, but Yankee Haters will always be around, such is the effect of such long term sustained winning that the Yankees had achieved from the Babe Ruth era all the way through the Mickey Mantle years, with a resurgence in the Derek Jeter run. The pinnacle of that success is undoubtedly in the 1949-1953 run where the Yankees won every World Series. In '53, there was no mistake what the mission was; the Yankees had won 4 titles in a row and all of baseball was looking to finally bring down Casey Stengel and company. The Yankees though, had never been as locked...