New York Yankees 1923 1935

In the years around 1920, the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Chicago White Sox had a détente. Their actions, which antagonized Ban Johnson, garnered them the nickname the "Insurrectos". This détente paid off well for the Yankees as they enlarged their payroll. Most new players who would later contribute to the team's success came from the Red Sox, whose owner, Harry Frazee, was trading them players for large sums of money.
Pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth was the most talented of all the acquisitions from Boston, and the outcome of the trade would haunt the Red Sox for the next 86 years, a span in which the team did not win a single Championship.
The Red Sox often found themselves eliminated from the playoff hunt as a result of the Yankees' success. This phenomenon became known as the "Curse of the Bambino" as the failure of the Red Sox and the success of the Yankees seemed to stem from that one trade.
Ruth's multitude of home runs proved so popular that the Yankees began
drawing more people than their landlords, the Giants. In 1921, when the
Yankees made their first World Series appearance against the Giants,
the Yankees were told to move out of the Polo Grounds after the 1922
season. Giants manager John McGraw was said to have commented that the
Yankees should "move to some out-of-the-way place, like Queens", but
they instead broke ground for a new ballpark in the Bronx, right across
the Harlem River from the Polo Grounds. In 1922, the Yankees returned
to the World Series again, and were dealt a second defeat at the hands
of the Giants. Important newcomers in this period were manager Miller
Huggins and general manager Ed Barrow. The hiring of Huggins by Ruppert
would cause a break between the owners that eventually led to Ruppert
buying Huston out in 1923.
In 1923, the Yankees moved to their new home, Yankee
Stadium. It was the first triple-deck venue in baseball and seated an
astounding 58,000 people. In the first game at Yankee Stadium, Babe
Ruth hit a home run, which was fitting as his home runs and drawing
power paid for the stadium, giving it its nickname of "The House That
Ruth Built". At the end of the year, the Yankees faced the Giants for
the third straight year in the World Series, and finally triumphed for
their first championship. Prior to that point, the Giants had been the
city's icon and dominant team. From 1923 onward, the Yankees would
assume that role, and the Giants would eventually leave the city for
San Francisco.
In the 1927 season, the Yankees featured a lineup that became
known as "Murderers' Row", and some consider this team to be the best
in the history of baseball. The Yankees won a then-AL record 110 games
with only 44 losses, and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World
Series. Ruth's home run total of 60 in 1927 set a single-season home
run record that would stand for 34 years.
Meanwhile, first baseman Lou Gehrig had his first big season, batting
.373 with 47 home runs and 175 RBIs, beating Ruth's single-season RBI
mark (171 in 1921). In the next three years, the Philadelphia Athletics
would take the AL pennant each season and win two world championships.
In 1931, Joe McCarthy came in as manager, and brought the
Yankees back to the top of the AL. They swept the Chicago Cubs in the
1932 World Series, and brought the team's streak of consecutive World
Series game wins to 12. This series was made famous by Babe Ruth's
"Called Shot" in game three of the series at Wrigley Field, a fitting
"swan song" to his illustrious World Series career. Ruth would leave
the Yankees to join the NL's Boston Braves after 1934, and would never
see the World Series again.