Don’t you hate seeing your favorite team lose time and again to the same arrogant hotdogs? Joe Boyd, a middle-aged fan of baseball’s hapless Washington Senators, would give anything to see the Yankees lose. When the devilish Mr. Applegate grants Joe his wish, he finds himself a young ballplayer torn between his dreams and the life he left behind. Damn Yankees is a light-hearted look back at baseball’s glory days – before million-dollar salaries.