The Yankees won four straight World Championships from 1936-39, winning the pennant races by nineteen-and-a-half, thirteen, nine, and seventeen games respectively. They scored over or close to one-thousand runs in each of the four seasons with a brutal batting order that consisted of Gehrig, Lazzeri, catcher Bill Dickey, and a talented and charismatic new outfielder named Joe DiMaggio. DiMaggio played anything like a rookie in 1936, hitting .323 with twenty-nine home runs and one-hundred twenty-five runs batted in. In fact DiMaggio was one of five Yanks to drive in over a hundred runs that year.
Added by longheartc on February 11, 2010