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1996 Flashback: Comeback Is Complete: Yanks Win the Series
The New York Times ^ | October 27, 1996 | N. R. Kleinfield

Posted on 04/17/2020 9:09:26 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

Ending years of futility and self-doubt, the Yankees defeated the Atlanta Braves 3-2 in a taut thriller last night to win their first World Series title in 18 years.

Crowning a magical season of many small miracles, the Yankees dropped the first two games at home and then stormed back to snatch four straight from the defending champions and claim a destiny that once seemed their very birthright.

The spellbinding six-game triumph over the Braves bestowed on the Yankees their 23d world championship, by far the most of any team, and perhaps their sweetest. Never since the Yankees began winning World Series titles in 1923 with a perfunctoriness that became an autumn habit had this storied franchise waited so long between victories. Before now, the team's lengthiest interlude stretched between 1962 and 1977. Before the 1970's, world championships arrived in the South Bronx every few years, if not every year.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; classics; flashback; yankees

1 posted on 04/17/2020 9:09:26 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Remember Jim Leyritz?

He hit a homerun off Mark Wohlers...

After he retired from baseball, he was in a car crash...A woman in the other car was killed...


2 posted on 04/17/2020 9:31:11 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

I remember. Leyritz, Wettleland, Boggs.


3 posted on 04/17/2020 9:40:31 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: L.A.Justice
He hit a homerun off Mark Wohlers...

I remember him as a Brave who killed the Phillies. They had a string of getting flame throwers but who were a little off.

4 posted on 04/17/2020 9:44:44 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

I remember him as a Brave who killed the Phillies. They had a string of getting flame throwers but who were a little off.
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Remember John Rocker?

I did watch TBS frequently when it showed Braves games...


5 posted on 04/17/2020 9:55:22 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

A series that proved the jinx in Atlanta still lived(s). Ahead two games to none and ahead in game three, the Braves total collapse was just another chapter in the futility of sports in this area.


6 posted on 04/18/2020 6:20:48 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

The Braves should have probably won in 1996.


7 posted on 04/18/2020 2:13:25 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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