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Yankee Fan’s Guide to the 2010 World Series: From Rags to the Hawk, Cliff Lee and New York

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged on October 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The 2010 World Series will be a unique one for many Yankees’ fans because the two teams involved do not really inspire a passionate rooting interest, either for or against. Of course, there are the traditional “root for the American League” or “root against the team that beat the Yankees” rationales to consider. Also, for […]

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Rangers, Giants Seek to Quench Championship Thirst; World Series to Feature Matchup of Long Suffering Franchises

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, tagged , on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Most baseball prognosticators expected the Yankees and Phillies to meet once again at season’s end, but the Rangers and Giants each brought a monkey wrench to their respective league championship series. So, instead of the first World Series rematch in 32 years, the Fall Classic will play host to two teams that have never won […]

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Yankee Go Home: Season Ends in Texas as Rangers Head to First Rodeo

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees, tagged , on October 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The Rangers couldn’t have drawn it up any better. In the team’s previous 49 seasons, it had made the postseason only three times, and lost each series to the New York Yankees. After dispatching the Rays to win their first ALDS, the Rangers then exacted revenge on the hated Yankees, who had turned them away so […]

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ALCS Game 6: Yankees vs. Rangers

Posted in Game Preview, Yankees on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

vs. Colby Lewis PA BA OBP SLG HR RBI Derek Jeter SS 21 0.333 0.429 0.556 1 3 Curtis Granderson CF 27 0.261 0.370 0.522 1 6 Robinson Cano 2B 20 0.353 0.450 0.588 1 1 Alex Rodriguez 3B 22 0.063 0.318 0.125 0 2 Lance Berkman 1B 14 0.429 0.429 0.429 0 1 Nick […]

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With Critics Quieted, Yanks Need Arod to Make Some Noise

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees, tagged on October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Alex Rodriguez is having one of the worst postseasons of his career, but no one seems to have noticed. Anyone who is even remotely familiar with the Yankees’ superstar third baseman can surely see the irony in that statement. Not too long ago, a similar performance would have been blown ridiculously out of proportion, usually […]

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Deja Vu All Over Again; Yanks Hope for Repeat of 1958, but Past Has Already Been Revisited

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Media, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The 1958 Yankees are enjoying a bit of a revival thanks to their status as the franchise’s only team to overcome a 3-1 deficit in a seven game postseason series. At the Pinstriped Bible, Steve Goldman took a look at how Casey Stengel guided his team back from the brink of elimination, while TYU examined […]

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Yanks Live to Fight Another Day; Return ALCS to Deep in the Heart of Texas

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees, tagged on October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The legendary folk hero Davy Crockett once said, “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas”. To those who doubted their resiliency, the Yankees used game five of the ALCS to say exactly the same thing. Although the Yankees had to feel comfortable with their ace going on full rest for the […]

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