text: what is the greatest baseball team in american history?   the new york yankees and here's the reason why:  3 yankees have pitched a perfect game (david wells and david cone) but the last yankee who done it in the 1956 ws (don larson).  26 championships  babe ruth had 60 home runs in a single season until 1961 when roger maris broke that record with 61  most of the players are in the hall of fame (babe ruth, gehrig, whitney ford, casey stengel, reggie jackson, yogi berra, bill dickey, mantle, phil rizzuto and joe dimaggio).  have won the world series five straight times 1949-1953   the term murderer's row (ruth, gehrig, tony lazzeri and eddie combs) back in 1927 argumently the best baseball team ever!!!   won 114 regular season games until the seattle mariners won 116.  the first major league team to first use numbers on the back of their shirts.  need i say more.