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It has a lot of stuff in the book

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New York Times Story of the Yankees: 1903-Present: 390 Articles, Profiles & Essays

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This is a book about the yankees.

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Yankees Century: 100 Years of New York Yankees Baseball

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this was incredible season they made it to the WS and were down 3-0 in games and still came back and won 4 games in a row to claim the 1996 WS trophy.

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Understand who the Braves were halfway through Game 4 of the 1996 World Series.

Atlanta was in its fourth Fall Classic in the past six years. The Braves had won Game 1 of that World Series by 11 runs, the worst defeat the Yankees had suffered to that point in 187 Series games. Greg Maddux shut them out on 82 pitches in Game 2, the first time the Yankees had been blanked in 65 Series games.

To that point, the Yanks had been outscored 16-1 in the 92nd World Series. But go back further: The Braves needed to win the final three games of the NLCS to advance against the Cardinals. And they did - by a combined 32-1 with John Smoltz, Maddux and Tom Glavine starting the games. So they had won five consecutive postseason games by 48-2.

In the off-day between Games 2 and 3, Yankee personnel woke to a column in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution titled: "'27 Yankees Might Lose to These Guys." The gist of the piece was the World Series was over, and the Braves were only playing for legacy.

David Cone, who started Game 3, used the piece to inspire his team, and the Yanks won the first contest in Atlanta.

But now let's get back to midway through Game 4. The Braves led 6-0 after five innings on Oct. 23, 1996. They were 12 outs away from a three-games-to-one lead with Smoltz, Maddux and Glavine lined up on full rest. Each of those guys was 30 or younger. Ryan Klesko and Javy Lopez were 25, Chipper Jones 24, Jermaine Dye 22 and Andruw Jones 19 (he had knocked Mickey Mantle out of the record books as the youngest player to homer in a World Series).

What if I had told you all of these facts with the score 6-0 after five innings on Oct. 23, 1996, and then pointed to the other dugout and said, "The dynasty is in there"?

But it was true. It is what gets lost to time about the 1996 champs. That Yankees club gets lumped with what was to come, which was a 1998-2000 three-peat and becoming the biggest rock-star sports team in the world and an economic behemoth.

However, the 1996 champions - who will be feted Saturday at the Stadium on the 20th anniversary of that title - were not those clubs. The Yankees had a 12-year, $486 million deal with Cablevision, but a big chunk was paid up front in 1989. The Yanks did not have a cash-cow stadium. They had middle-of-the-pack attendance.

They had the majors' No. 1 payroll, but were not lapping the field like they would in future years. And money was tight enough that when the team took on Cecil Fielder, at the time the majors' largest player contract, in July without initially telling the club's chief financial officer, Barry Pincus, of the move, he reacted when told: "Are you (bleeping) crazy? How can we afford this? The only way we can afford this is if Fielder eats the other players on the team."

The Yankees went into that 1996 campaign having not won a payoff series in 15 years. The 1995 season ended when the Yanks blew a two-games-to-none lead against the Mariners in the division series, Seattle's three straight victories culminating with Ken Griffey Jr. sliding into home with the winning run and a dog pile being led by a 20-year-old mainly pinch-runner back then named Alex Rodriguez.

The incredibly popular Buck Showalter exited and was replaced by Joe Torre, who at that moment was known as one of the great losers in MLB history. He had never reached the postseason as a player, was swept out of his only playoff series in three managerial stops and his timing was such that the organizations he played for or managed was almost always great before he arrived and after he left, but never while he was there.

George Steinbrenner had such buyer's remorse that he privately met with Showalter after hiring Torre to see if Showalter would consider returning.

Showalter might have retained his job had he simply trusted the only pitcher who did well out of his pen in that division series, a 25-year-old failed starter named Mariano Rivera. But the Yankees also did not exactly know what they had.

In spring training of '96, a Steinbrenner confidant named Clyde King told The Boss the team could not win a championship with rookie shortstop Derek Jeter. A deal was on the table that spring in which the Yanks could have traded Rivera to Seattle for Felix Fermin. If the Yanks go through with it, the dynasty is over before it even begins - Rivera a Mariner, Jeter back to Triple-A.

Gene Michael, Willie Randolph and a few others talked Steinbrenner out of it about a week before the regular season. But even in April, Torre initially used Rivera in long relief. But in a span of nine days, Rivera had three three-inning shutout appearances against Minnesota in which he gave up three hits in nine innings and whiffed 12. Then veteran Twins manager Tom Kelly said: 'This Rivera guy, we don't want to face him anymore. He needs to go to a higher league. I don't know where that league is. He should be banned from baseball. He should be illegal."

A formula was born: Get a lead and get the ball to Rivera, who would get it to John Wetteland.

"It was Little League baseball, six innings," Tino Martinez said.

Still, Martinez had to overcome the shadow of Don Mattingly. Joe Girardi of the very popular Mike Stanley. The team had to overcome losing its ace, Cone, who had an aneurysm near his shoulder and missed nearly four months. Dwight Gooden, almost released after three brutal April starts, stepped back into the rotation for his best friend on the team. And on May 14 - with Cone in a New York hospital recovering from his surgery and Gooden's father, Dan, in a Tampa hospital being prepped for open-heart surgery the next day - Gooden threw a no-hitter.

It was that kind of season for those 1996 Yankees, drama, trauma and triumph. Torre proved he could manage, but in a season in which his oldest brother, Rocco, died of a heart attack while watching a Yankees doubleheader in June and his older brother, Frank - Joe's baseball mentor - needed life-saving heart-transplant surgery during the World Series.

Cone came back on Labor Day to throw seven no-hit innings. Darryl Strawberry, a baseball pariah, joined the team in midseason as a valuable bat and - of all things - a sage counselor. Jeffrey Maier reached over the right field wall to turn a Jeter flyball into an ALCS Game 1 homer. There was plenty more. But what lingers is just how unexpected it all was.

Steinbrenner - and most people observers - felt the Orioles had outdone the Yanks putting together a team after the 1995 season. Cone was retained on a three-year contract, but the other free-agent signing, Kenny Rogers, was a bust. The only significant free-agent signings on those Yankees were Wade Boggs and Jimmy Key, both of whom had enlisted four years earlier.

Rivera was 12th in MVP voting, the highest on the team. The Yankees finished ninth in the AL in runs scored and fifth in ERA; no World Series winner had ever finished that low in both, and none of the Yanks' 22 previous champs finished that low in either.

This was a team that pulled collective strength from one another, displacing pressure by believing in the group. That helped the '96 Yanks go 5-0 in the postseason in one-run games, 8-0 on the road and 3-0 in extra innings - one win in each round. That included winning World Series Game 4 in 10 innings, when they rallied from that 6-0 deficit - with Jim Leyritz famously hitting a three-run homer off Mark Wohlers - which helped them go 3-0 in Atlanta and win the last three World Series games by four runs total.

Steinbrenner, in fury after the first two losses, had stopped in Torre's office after Game 2. Torre - showing his expertise of defusing the noise around his players - told The Boss not to worry, that Atlanta was his town, the Yanks would win three straight there and come back on Saturday to win the World Series in the Bronx. Steinbrenner laughed. He was just hoping his team did not embarrass itself further.

Of course that club did way more than that. For the last time in a long time, the Yankees were underdogs in 1996, they were still somewhat innocent - not yet a behemoth. Those '96 Yankees created the base from which all else would blossom.

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Remembering 1996 Yankees: the title that seems impossible

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Understand who the Braves were halfway through Game 4 of the 1996 World Series. Atlanta was in its fourth Fall Classic in the past six years. The Braves had won Game 1 of that World Series by 11 runs, the worst defeat the Yankees had suffered to that point in 187 Series games.

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These are my payrolls that I did on google docs.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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This is where I got all of my payrolls to research.

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major league baseball salary statistics 1967-2017

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Major League Baseball Team Payrolls 1998-2017

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Major League Baseball opening day team payrolls and salary figures for the years 1998-2017 and player salary statistics through 2017

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This is a video about the 1999 WS it is mostly about the yankees because they won the WS.