Yankee (disambiguation) explained

Yankee is a term for various groups of Americans.

Yankee may also refer to:

Sports

Teams

• New York Yankees, an American Major League Baseball team
  • Auburn Yankees, two minor league baseball teams based in Auburn, New York, one in 1889, and another affiliated with the New York Yankees from 1958 to 1961
  • Battle Creek Yankees, an affiliate in 2004 and 2005
  • Boise Yankees, an affiliate in 1952 and 1953
  • Dominican Summer League Yankees 1
  • Dominican Summer League Yankees 2
  • Fort Lauderdale Yankees, a Class A Florida State League affiliate (1962–1992)
  • Gulf Coast Yankees, a Rookie League affiliate
  • Kearney Yankees, an affiliate from 1956 to 1959
  • Manchester Yankees, two affiliates: in the Class B New England League (1948–1949) and in the Double-A Eastern League (1969–1971)
  • Paintsville Yankees, a former minor league affiliate
  • Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, a Triple-A Minor League affiliate
  • Staten Island Yankees, a Low-A Minor League affiliate
  • Tampa Yankees, a High-A Minor League affiliate
  • Trenton Thunder, a Double-A Minor League affiliate
  • Ventura Yankees, an affiliate from 1947 to 1949
  • West Haven Yankees, a Double-A Eastern League baseball team affiliated with the New York Yankees (1972–1979) and the Oakland A's (1980–1982)
• New York Yankees (disambiguation), various defunct American teams
• United States Men's National Soccer Team, sometimes referred to as the "Yankees"
• Augusta Yankees, a South Atlantic League minor league baseball team based in Augusta, Georgia, from 1962 to 1963
• Bronx Yankees, an American Basketball League team in the 1938-39 season

Conferences

• Yankee Conference (1946–1997), a former collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States
• Yankee Small College Conference, a northern New England Division II athletic conference

Other

• Yankee Handicap, an American Thoroughbred horse race from 1935 to 1987

In the military

• Yankee-class submarine, NATO reporting name for several types of Soviet nuclear submarines
• USS Yankee (1861), a sidewheel steamer
• USS Yankee (1892), a steam ship used in the Spanish–American War
• The 'Y' version of the Aeritalia G.91 fighter aircraft

Transportation

• American Aviation AA-1 Yankee, a light aircraft
• Yankee (ferry), an historic ferry homeported in New York
• Brigantine Yankee, a steel-hulled schooner which went aground in 1964
• Yankee (motorcycle), an American-made motorcycle
• Yankee (yacht), J-class yacht involved in the America's Cup

Businesses

• Yankee Candle, an American manufacturer of scented candles
• Yankee Group, an American information technology and market research advisory firm
• Yankee Stores, a defunct American retail chain

Arts and entertainment

• Yankee (film), a 1966 Italian film
• Yankee (album) (2014), by Japanese musician Kenshi Yonezu
• Yankee (TV series), a 2019 Mexican TV series
• Yankees (album) (1983), improvised music by Derek Bailey, John Zorn and George Lewis
• Yankee (magazine), a New Hampshire periodical
• The Yankee, an American literary magazine published 1828–1829

Other uses

• The letter Y in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Daddy Yankee (born 1977), Puerto Rican singer
• Yankee Sullivan (1811–1856), bare-knuckle fighter and boxer
• A type of bet offered by UK bookmakers
• Yankee Harbour, Greenwich Island, Antarctica
• Yankee Lake (New York), a lake in Sullivan County, New York
• (Japanese: ヤンキー), a Japanese term for a juvenile delinquent

See also

• Billy Yank, a reference to a Union supporter during the American Civil War
• Swamp Yankee, a rural New Englander
• Damn Yankees (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with Yankee
  • Yanki (disambiguation)
• Yanqi (disambiguation)