nydailynews.com - 10/28/2009
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The Yankees take the field Wednesday at the new Yankee Stadium, looking to win their first world championship in the new building and add to their record 26 titles. Let's take a cruise through nearly a century's worth of baseball dominance. <strong>- Anthony ...
giantsbaseballblog.blogspot.com - 24 days ago
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On Saturday, the Giants finalized a 2 year
contract extension with Freddy Sanchez, who they acquired in...
July for Tim Alderson. The new deal for Sanchez will pay him 12 million over the next 2 seasons instead of 8.5 million for just 2010, which was his option for 2010. I've voiced my ...
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Giants Still Need Infield Help
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1950 Revisited
No, You're a Towel —
... The Yankees and Phillies have only met once in the World Series. This occurred in 1950 when the Bronx Bombers swept the "Whiz Kids" from Philly. Let's take a look at what happened almost 60 years ago.
First we have the Daily News cover from that day (you can see Notre Dame disappointed even back then). Benjamin Kabak of River Ave Blues has more details about what it was like 59 years ago.
The New York Daily News points out that this was the last all-white Fall Classic. Rob Neyer points out that it may have been a much different series had ...
Essential Subway Reading
YFSF —
... The Daily News gives us 26 Yankee titles, 26 back pages. I enjoyed it very much.
27 Yankees World Series titles, 27 Daily News Covers
Zell's Pinstripe Blog —
... Here are the 27 (technically 26) Daily News Covers from each of the Yankees’ World Series titles.
1978 – No front or back page due to citywide newspaper strike.
Posted in Yankees History, Yankees Postseason ...
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