"Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep
hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young."
-- Roger Angell
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game – the American game. It will take our people out of
doors, fill them with oxygen . . . Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."
-- Walt Whitman
"It's hard to understand people who hate baseball, but easy to pity them. Never to have felt the
surge of joy watching a ball sail over the fence or a fielder making a running, leaping catch is to
have missed a great pleasure indeed. For that matter, to have missed the anger and despair
when the ball sailing over the fence beats your favorite team in an important game is equally
sad, because the caring feels so good. To find baseball boring is to have missed drama and
nuance, the laughter and tears that come from joy or sorrow. It's a shame."
-- Alison Gordon
"No baseball fan has to explain his mania to any other baseball fan. They are a fraternity. It is
less easy, often it is hopeless, to try to explain it to anyone else. You grow technical, and you
do not make sense. You grow sentimental, and you are deemed soft in the head. How, the
benighted outsider asks you with no little condescension, can you grow sentimental about a
cold-blooded professional sport?"
-- John K. Hutchens
"To the fierce, ardent, leather-lunged professional fan, baseball is life itself, a motive for breathing, the
yeast that helps his spirit, as well as his gorge, rise. "
--Jim Bouton
"When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and join the circus. With the
Yankees, I've accomplished both."
-- Graig Nettles
Hi, and welcome to my New York Yankees page, humbly dedicated to the best team in baseball, the New York Yankees, and more specifically to the World Champion 1998 Yankees.
Tino Martinez
Chuck Knoblauch
Derek Jeter
Scott Brosius
Homer Bush
Luis Sojo
Paul O'Neill
Bernie Williams
Chad Curtis
Darryl Strawberry
Shane Spencer
Ricky Ledee
Tim Raines
Chili Davis
David Wells
David Cone
Andy Pettitte
Orlando Hernandez
Ramiro Mendoza
Hideki Irabu
Jeff Nelson
Mike Stanton
Graeme Lloyd
Mariano Rivera
By the Numbers-- I'm of the opinion that statistics can't show you everything, and that intangibles were a large part of the Yankees' success this year. However, looking at the stats can show you a lot, so for the object-minded, here's a summary of the 1998 Yankees.
Yankee History-- The great and glorious history of the New York Yankees.
Jeter to Knobby to Tino-- Remember the legendary Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance? Here's a modern day adaptation...
Curt Flood -- Curt Flood was a great ballplayer whose sacrifices for the sake of principle should be known to every baseball player and every baseball fan.
The Future -- My thoughts on the future of the Yankees, and their 1999 season.
The Parade -- Okay, sure, it's really late, but this is my take on the parade.
My Predictions-- I'm jumping on the bandwagon, and making some predictions for '99.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game-- Did you know there were lyrics to this besides the chorus? Did you know it was written about a woman?
Just for Fun-- Silly, but fun, Yankee-related stuff.
Links-- Links to other Yankee-related pages.
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