OT Congratulations NY Yankees

Very happy here, as a long-time Yankee fan. Albeit exhausted, from three series worth of tense games, many extending late into the night.

Two comments re the perennial accusation that the Yankees buy their championships:

1)There are innumerable examples of teams that have spent a lot of money and gotten very poor results. Just look at this year's Mets, for starters.

2)If every team spent equally, and if each organization was run equally well (or poorly), then on average each of the 30 teams in baseball would win a title once every 30 years. That would seem to be an unlikely way to boost the sport's popularity (and its tv revenues), considering how much larger the fan population is for the teams from the major metropolitan areas.

Elizabeth -- Derek Jeter is still single! :) He's also (very deservedly) the team captain.

Best regards,
-- Al

Bill Mazeroski

Number 9, second base for the Pirates.

And who hit a home run that defeated the Yankees in game 7 of the 1960 World Series.

Dlr, I get your drift :)

-- Al

Dan -- I too was a kid listening to that series on a transistor radio, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY. If I recall correctly, in the three games the Yankees won they scored something like 16, 12, and 10 runs, while the Pirates scored near zero. The games the Pirates won were nail-biters, won by margins of 1 or 2 runs or so.

The climactic seventh game was back and forth, and I believe it was tied at 9 when Mazeroski hit his walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth. I believe it is still the only World Series ever played that went seven games and ended with a home run.

All told, one of the most memorable series ever played, regardless of which team one was rooting for.

Best regards,
-- Al