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Jeter Earns Honor
New York Yankees' history is loaded with legends. Twenty seven championships produce a list of heroes that stretch from the Bronx to the Canyon of Heroes. An elite few are elevated to iconic status: Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle and Berra fill the ...
Angels Trip Yankees
Baseball is never easy. Yankee fans craving a sweep of the slumbering Angels were destined for disappointment. A three run lead, courtesy of a Jeter, A-Rod, Damon power surge, looked good with old reliable, Andy Pettitte, on the mound--it wasn't eno...
Yanks Deliver
The Bronx Bombers welcomed Minnesota's gritty Twins to the Big Apple with a blast Wednesday night. Cinderella got whacked at the Stadium. The heart-warming joy ride crashed into a pinstriped, talent laden wall.Derek Jeter did what he does in the post...
Yankees Clinch
Power propelled the New York Yankees to a 6-5 victory in Anaheim Tuesday night. The final score was anticlimactic, before the Great Rivera recorded the final out, the scoreboard flashed a Texas Rangers' loss. The Yankees are back in the postseason. T...
Jeter Makes History
Torrential rain pelted the diamond in the Bronx Friday night. Logic left the building when the powers that be allowed a baseball game to be played, regardless of the conditions. The turnstiles churned. History was on deck.Derek Jeter's run to the top...
More Yankee Magic
Yankee Stadium was engulfed with Big Apple hype Tuesday night. Derek Jeter's march to the front of the Bombers' hit parade transpires under Gotham's glare. The media is in a tizzy. The Captain's goose egg prompted groans from the packed stands but i...
Yankee Blitz
Jeter-mania rocks the Bronx. Girardi's fine-tuned juggernaut sprints to playoff pay dirt. The Yankees' soothing resurgence is built on a foundation of confidence, earned with prodigious production. The alleged pennant race never got out of the gate....
Yanks' Rain-Drenched Triumph
Relentless rain pelted the Bronx Friday night. A tropical storm was on the radar, bleak was in the forecast. The New York Yankees took the soggy field against the Chicago White Sox. The show must go on.A routine fly to center field gets whipped by t...
New York Yankee Links
The next chapter in the Yankees' never ending rivalry saga continues tonight in Boston. Bedlam is on deck. Let's go around the horn for some related linkage:The Boston Globe credits the Red Sox front office for the Yankees' success: "“It can’t b...
Jeter's Surging Excellence
The Yankees were handed a 7-2 win in Oakland's football stadium Tuesday. A bumbling A's slop-fest featured four errors, a golden sombrero, (Kennedy's four whiffs,) wild pitches, a bases loaded walk and the sorry spectacle of watching Nomar play firs...
Yankees' Heat Check
How hot are the New York Yankees? Let's check the scorecard from Wednesday's matinee against the Blue Jays: 1) MVP candidate Mark Teixeira is given a rare day off. 2) The reincarnated captain, who continues to befuddle stat. wizards, leaves in the 2...
Cabrera Sparks Yankees
Melky Cabrera did it again Sunday. A reeling Yankees team, in dire need of a rejuvenating win got a timely jolt of energy from their underrated center fielder. "Melky gives us energy."--Joe Torre. It was deja vu all over again as Cabrera started an ...
Jeter's Future
There is always a brewing sub-plot to the Yankees' story. The game on the field is never enough. Hype, speculation and rumors don't sleep they fester in The Big Apple.The current rumblings concern Derek Jeter. The venerable captain's contract expires...
Yankees Battle Injuries
Baseball's season is a marathon not a sprint, only the strong survive. Ominous words for the New York Yankees. The one constant in the Yankee Universe is a relentless onslaught of injuries. The beat goes on...Imported iron-man, CC Sabathia, was yank...
Yanks' Home Away From Home
The Yankees moved from the bleak, rain drenched Bronx to the rejuvenating warmth of South Florida. Land Shark Stadium, allegedly the home of the Florida Marlins, echoed comforting "Lets Go Yankees" chants. The pinstriped, over-the-hill-gang flashes b...
Yankees' Infamous Legends
The New York Yankees have a heralded archive of lustrous legends. From Monument Park in the Bronx, to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Yankees' history doesn't speak it shouts.The road to pinstriped prominence is replete with potholes. For ...
Yankees Come Together
The Torre dynasty peaked with a cohesive, winning obsessed team. O'Neill, Jeter, Posada, Martinez, Pettitte, Rivera and company kept their eye on the ball. The record speaks. Time marched on. Retirements happened. Relentless winning waned. In a futil...
Yankees Press Clippings
Start spreading the news, here are a few timely Yankee excerpts from the Big Apple media:"Acceptance verging on indifference carried the day for the 44,970 overpaying customers, who have grown all too accustomed to disjointed mediocrity from this fra...
Yankees Necessary Distraction
The countdown continues. A-Rod, the player and tell-all book will be arriving shortly. New York will enthusiastically welcome Alex Rodriguez to the lineup while reluctantly making room for his baggage. "It'll be hard, getting to my locker."--(Brian B...
Yankees Issues
The Yankees '09 season is only a few weeks old but the issues just keep on coming. Let's touch base with a few New York Yankees related links:Intangibles: "His ability to pair joy with competitive dignity..."--(Detroit News)Rust never sleeps: "The Y...
Yankees Search for Consistency
The Yankees' bats produced power that would make Murder's Row proud, swatting five bombs on the way to a 6-5 victory over Cleveland, Saturday in the Bronx. Damon, Teixeira, Cabrera, Cano and Jeter went deep and overcame the lackluster pitching of Jo...
Derek Jeter's Frustration
The World Baseball Classic featured a frustrating finish for Team USA. The revamped American squad, led by Yankees captain Derek Jeter, fell short of redemption. "To get so close, the final four teams, yeah there's a lot of disappointment," said the ...
Yankees Rumors and Speculation
Spring training wanes as the regular season comes into focus. Rumors and ruminations rumble:Little big man? The wacky headline reads: "Brett Gardner could grow into Yankees' version of Dustin Pedroia" No pressure kid, welcome to the Big Apple. What d...
Girardi Prepares for Pressure
Spring training's sunshine falls on baseball players. The boys of summer limber up in paradise preparing for the show. In the shadows of the Yankee dugout, Joe Girardi is hard at work preparing himself for the daunting rigors of managing the '09 Yan...
The Key to Yankees Success
The New York Yankees' 2009 season is on the horizon. Prognosticators sharpen their pencils in preparation of all knowing forecasts. Stat sheets, computer programs and complex formulas will runneth over in an attempt to predict the future. I'm not a ...
Yankees Shaky Defense
Baseball's power-laden performance-enhancing drug era diverted attention from the games fundamentals. The long ball was king;glove work an after thought. When MLB was forced to come clean, progress happened. Peter Gammons documents the shift in an ar...
