newsday.com - 3/14/2008
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TAMPA, Fla. - Billy Crystal got to live out his
lifelong dream of playing for the Yankees yesterday. Even though he didn't reach base in his lone at-bat - after getting ahead 3-and-1, Crystal struck out swinging against Pirates lefthander Paul Maholm - he said: "It was unbelievable. It's the strangest, greatest moment of my life. I don't even know how to describe it, it was so intensely good."
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