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Two 7-game classics that brought Yankees-Red Sox to new heights
BOSTON — Maybe the best way to tackle this is to start with a guy who saw both endings from the same vantage point. When Aaron Boone cracked the 11th-inning...
Aaron Boone may see himself in his two riskiest wild-card picks
He knows, of course. He understands. As much as anyone who will be inside Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night, Aaron Boone is intimately familiar not just with the noise of...
Why Joe Torre is convinced Aaron Boone has what it takes
Joe Torre can relate to what Aaron Boone is going through as the Yankees see the Red Sox pulling away in the AL East — even as the Yankees look...
The brawls, El Duque and Jeter's girlfriend: Behind the scenes of the 1998 Yankees
Late on the night of Oct. 21, 1998, in the charming port city of San Diego, you could feel the relief and exhaustion. Primarily the exhaustion. I’m pretty sure those...
Yankees can take solace in other juggernauts' postseason failures
BOSTON — The more time goes on — and it’s been 20 years now — the more remarkable the accomplishments of the 1998 Yankees become. It is one thing to...
Now we are finally going to find out about Aaron Boone
BOSTON — It took 107 games, but we are about to find out precisely what the rookie manager of the Yankees is made of. It’s hard to define as “crisis”...
Joe Torre’s lake house hits the market for $1.39M
Joe Torre, former manager of the Yankees and the Mets and now MLB’s chief baseball officer, has just listed his lakefront home upstate for $1.39 million. Torre was inducted into...
Joe Torre: MLB should get a cut of sports bets
Joe Torre stepped up to the plate in Albany on Monday, saying that to protect the game, organized baseball should get a cut of the action if the state authorizes...
Aaron Boone begins with step away from Yankees cautionary tale
TAMPA — He hit one of the most memorable homers in major league history against the Red Sox one October day. That is basically how Bucky Dent got to be...
Yankees betting on rookie to build on 25-year run of managing stability
Buck Showalter got the Yankees manager job after he was initially told he was not under consideration. Joe Torre got it in a disheveled process, notably because his pal at...
Where does Joe Girardi rank among Yankees managers?
Every manager who was in charge of the Yankees for as long as Joe Girardi was won the World Series more times than him. That alone might make it seem...
What made Joe Girardi a success cost him his job
Joe Girardi is a grinder. It helped him overcome some physical limitations to have a long major league career, and it vaulted him to the top of the list for...
Mickey Callaway's last step to being a successful manager is the toughest
HOUSTON -- I have always thought the 98-win 1999 Yankees were more talented than the 1998 114-victory version, but knew what the burden was of winning so many games and...
Stunning rise and stunning fall of Joba Chamberlain, a major Torre regret
CLEVELAND — A decade has passed since Joba Chamberlain arrived in the big leagues — armed with a fastball that approached triple digits, a leg-buckling breaking ball and a personality...
Yankees' most recent dynasty sees the beginnings of the next
The 2017 Yankees are fighting to stay alive in the playoff race, but don’t tell that to the former Yankees greats who believe we’re witnessing the emergence of the next...
'Joe Torre is on a vendetta to ruin my career'
CINCINNATI — Angel Hernandez, a big league umpire for nearly a quarter-century, sued Major League Baseball on Monday alleging race discrimination. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in...
Behind the scenes of the darkest day in Mets history
You can only have your heart broken for the first time once per lifetime. Maybe your first girlfriend breaks up with you, or your favorite band breaks up, or your...
The relationship that will save or destroy the Giants
There are exceptions — Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson, for example — but a franchise’s championship dreams sometimes hinge on the relationship between coach and star player, or manager and...
Coughlin over Parcells? Ranking best coaches in NY sports history
There are few managers or coaches in recent memory who have gotten the town talking the way Terry Collins has, and does, sometimes in good ways, often in bad ways,...
Derek Jeter always knew his audience
The first chants began in earnest at 6:28 p.m., though the diehards who had arrived 4 ½ hours earlier to enjoy an old-fashioned, single-admission doubleheader had really led things off...