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BROOKS NEWELLHELLO HARRY I AGREE WITH YOU ON SOME OF YOUR FACTS BUT NOT ON YOUR DATES.ACTUALLY THE NEW YORK AMERICANS ORIGINALLY WERE THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES AND THROUGH A LOT OF POLITICAL FINAGALLING FROM 1901 TO 1903 THEY RELOCATED TO HILLTOP PARK IN UPPER MANHATTAN AND THIER ACTUAL NAME WAS THE HILLTOPPERS BUT EVERY ONE CALLED THEM THE HIGHLANDERS. THE TEAM WAS PURCHASED BY A BOSTON TEXTILE OWNER AND PLAYED ITS LAST GAME AT HILLTOP PARK ON OCTOBER 5,1912. IT WAS ALSO IN 1912 THAT THE TERM YANKEES WERE UNOFFICALLY COINED BY NEW YORK PRESS SPORTS EDITOR JIM PRICE,AS YOU SAID FOR SIMPLICITY IN WRITING AND SPACE CONCERNS, AND IN 1913 IT WAS OFFICALLY ADOPTED.HENCE MY ORIGINAL QUESTION IF THEY WERE NOT PRINTED IN MULTI-YEARS HOW DID THE NAME YANKEES APPEAR IN 1911 AS THIER OFFICAL NAME WAS NOT ADOPTED UNTIL 1913 OR EVEN BANTERED ABOUT UNTIL 1912 ACCORDING TO MY REFERENCE MATERIAL........ANYONE ELSE HAVE AN INSIGHT ON THIS POSER?