Onward and Upward!
Most Yankee fans have mixed emotions and feelings on the 2001 World Series. It was the first time the Yankees lost a World Series since 1981. We had won four of the last five championships up until this point with just two outs away from winning our fourth in a row, but what made this series memorable was the events that took place less then two months back.
The Yankees have 15 numbers retired (the number 8 was retired twice for Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey), the most by any team in Major League Baseball. Add to the fact that Derek Jeter’s number 2 and Joe Torre’s number 6 most likely will be retired one day and you will never see another Yankee wear a single digit jersey again. There are a few Yankees who can make a case for having their number retired and Paul O’Neill is one of them.
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What if Derek Jeter got caught using Steroids?
What would happen to Major League Baseball if Derek Jeter got caught using Steroids? What would that do to sports in general? Would anyone, in any sport, ever be above suspicion again?
Andy Pettitte may not be the most dominate pitcher, he was never the ace of any rotation, but he won a lot of games. Sports are measured and defined by winning and Andy Pettitte did plenty of that in his career. Pettitte was part of 8 different World Series (7 with the Yankees 1 with the Astros) he won 5, all with the Yankees. He is part of core four along with Jeter, Rivera and Posada and a major part of the Yankee dynasty years.
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October 4th, 1995
Game 2 Division Series
Don Mattingly follows Ruben Sierra’s home run with one of his own in the bottom of the 6th inning to give the Yankees their first lead of the night. In what would be considered one of the greatest games in division series history, clocking in at 5 hours and 12 minutes (was also the longest playoff game at the time), that Mattingly home run is what will always be remembered by one Yankee fan.
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I’m going to try and project what the Starting lineup is going to produce this year. Its very difficult to predict what will happen because injuries do occur, but its still worth a shot to try and predict the production. I will also try to predict some of the statistics for the Starting Pictures and Mariano Rivera as well. I have left off middle relievers and bench players.
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Joe DiMaggio was one of sport’s superstars and his life had some odd twists in the end. He was one of baseball’s great players, the only player ever to be selected for the all-star game every year in which he played, has a standing record of 56 games with a hit, and was voted the baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. The son of Italian immigrants Joseph Paul DiMaggio was expected to follow his father in occupational choice: fisherman. This was the height of the California sardine trade and there was more than enough work for everyone. Unfortunately the smell of fish made Joe sick. He started
Baseball is a game of national pride, a game beautified by many prestigious teams. The New York Yankees have garnered the love and respect of their fans unlike any other team. The Yankees moved to New York City in 1903, and were initially known as the New York Highlanders. It wasn’t until 1913, when they finally changed their official name to, what they are now known as, the New York Yankees.
The best baseball manager in the country resides in a small town in middle Tennessee. His name is Wink Chatterfield. A smallish man, with a height that would only make a child jealous and a weight bordering on a sack of flour, Chatterfield is an icon in his field. He has all the smarts to be great but his key to
LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett. These guys are physical freaks of nature and their skill levels coming out of high school were head and shoulders above anyone else their own age. Due to this, they decided to skip college and take their talents straight to the pros,