Customer Review: The Yankees are my team. I adopted them as a child in the 1950s when I grew up in New York and inspite of their success and unpopularity they remain my team. I have seen the dynasty of the 1950s and early 60s. Their fall in 1965 and resurrection in 1976. After 1981 they suffered a drought until 1996... more info
Customer Review: There are not many cities with a major league team un each league. New York has the Yanks and Mets, Chicago Cubs and White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers and Angels (if you consider Anaheim a part of Los Angeles). Well they are called the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Since prior to 1958 New York had... more info
Customer Review: This Yankee team was almost as good as the 1998 team although a few players did retire. Still, they managed to beat an excellent Braves team with the pitching of Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz for starters! Some how the Braves always knocked on the door of a World Championship but only managed to win 1... more info
Customer Review: Before 1996 Joe Torre had been considered a players manager and a pretty good one. In 1996 he got his first chance with the Yankees and managed them to his first world title and the Yankees first since 1978 and their 23ed overall. Litle did he know thatafter losing to Clevelnad in the 1997 playoffs... more info
Customer Review: while the Current Yankess are Winners in the Highest Sense of the word these Yankees were also Winners&also had that Swagger to boast as well.they dropped the first two games in LA&they went on to Win the Next 4.Reggie Jackson,Bucky Dent&of course at the Hot Corner Graig Nettles came... more info
Customer Review: The Atlanta Braves were going for back-to-back World Championships in the 1996 World Series and when they returned to Atlana up 2-0 on the New York Yankees, their victory seemed inevitable. After all, the Braves had outscored their opponents 48-2 over their previous five games including 12-1 and 4-0... more info
Customer Review: The 1953 World Series championship for the New York Yankees was special because it was the fifth season in a row that finished with Casey Stengel's team on top. The series was a rematch of the 1952 Subway Series between the Bronx Bombers and the Brooklyn Dodgers, which had gone seven games and ended... more info