First-time champs relish breakthrough
Published 23 days ago by Bryan Hoch at Major League Baseball News
New York's biggest acquisitions of the offseason -- CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Mark Teixeira and Swisher -- are all first-time World Series champions. So is Series MVP Hideki Matsui and postseason force Alex Rodriguez, who waited 16 big league seasons and cashed the game's biggest paychecks without having this opportunity.
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