This raises an interesting question: Given that Bostonians (and New Englanders in general) were clearly <i>Yankees</i> as of 1865 (the end of the Civil War), and given that the New York baseball team was renamed the &quot;Yankees&quot; in 1913, at what point did the latter meaning start to predominate? It can&#x27;t have been right away, but clearly by 2015 the baseball meaning is practically the only association people (at least in the Northeast) have with the term.