After the final out of every game at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees pipe Frank Sinatra’s last great hit, “New York, New York,” over the loudspeakers. The tradition is now 35 years old; George Steinbrenner, the Cleveland shipbuilder who bought the team in 1973, first started playing it during the 1980 season, a few months after Sinatra released his recording of the song on his otherwise muddled three-record album, “Trilogy: Past Present Future.”
“New York, New York” has since become so closely associated with the Yankees that many consider it the team’s anthem.