Girardi asks Pettitte to return next year
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 9/21/2008 — From Peter Abraham : Andy Pettitte spoke to reporters this morning about his start tomorrow. Near the end of his interview he revealed an interesting nugget of information. Joe Girardi, he said, has asked him to return to the team next season. “He made his feelings clear,” Pettitte said. Well ...

Cano's Single Lifts Yanks Over O's
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 9/21/2008 — For the third time in as many starts Alfredo Aceves pitched very well. Yesterday he went six innings without allowing a run, scattered five hits, walked three, and struck out three. He's been very impressive since being called up from the minors. In 26 innings he's allowed 4 runs on 20 hits, wal....

Question for the Yankees’ Fans
union.sportsblognet.com 9/21/2008 — From Babe Ruth to Derek Jeter, Yankee Stadium has housed so many well-known names. Names like Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield, George Steinbrenner, and even George Costanza. It is marked with joy, tears, memories, tradition, passion and ghosts. Its legacy will...

JETER HBP, WON'T MISS YANK FINALE
nypost.com 9/21/2008 — Six thousand, five hundred and eighty down, one to go. Somebody just needs to turn out the lights on their way out tonight. In a perfect pinstriped universe, that would be Mariano Rivera finishing one last victory for the Yankees in The House That...

Echoes in the Bronx - Sitting With DiMaggio and Steinbrenner
nytimes.com 9/21/2008 — Yankee Stadium was an important stage in my discovery of America. I came here as an immigrant in 1938. In the summer of 1939, I started working in a shaving brush factory. Some of my co-workers turned out to be of Italian origin, and they took me to a ...

RANT OF THE WEEK — Newsday.com - Yankees 9/21/2008
"How appropriate would it be if A-Rod grounded into a double play for the final outs at Yankee Stadium!"

Jeter wistful as Stadium curtain comes down — Newsday.com - Yankees 9/21/2008
Derek Jeter does have at least one thing in common with the rest of us, common folks that we are. He had the exact same vivid impression as we did the first time he saw Yankee Stadium.

Derek Jeter Will Play in Stadium Finale — Bleacher Report - MLB 9/21/2008
When Brett Gardner plated the winning run in yesterday’s game, Yankee fans rejoiced because they were getting a last chance to cheer for their team in their stadium’s final week. It could have been an entirely different tone last night ...

Instant Replay Debate: The 5 Minute Home Run — Bleacher Report - MLB 9/21/2008
Well, Instant Replay, you got one right. Last night, against the Minnesota Twins, Carlos Pena of the Tampa Bay Rays launched a home run that was called on the field as 'fan interference' . The fan interference play was ruled a double, Pena was ...

Reality of finale sets in for Yankees — Major League Baseball News 9/21/2008
It finally happened. The long-unimaginable reality of Yankee Stadium's finale hit Derek Jeter on a sunny Sunday afternoon, as he navigated New York's thoroughfares and made a sharp left turn into the players' parking lot for the last time.