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Clockwise from top left: Mark Teixeira, Jacoby Ellsbury, Carlos Beltran, Paul O'Neill, Wade Boggs and Don Mattingly

The year that gets thrown around a lot, by amateur historians and professional Yankees fans, is 1965. That was the year the Beatles released “Rubber Soul,” the year of Maria von Trapp and Dr. Zhivago, the year Dean Martin started crooning for his dinner on NBC.

And the year the Yankees suddenly forgot how to be the Yankees.

In “The Sun Also Rises,” Bill asks Mike: “How did you go bankrupt?” And Mike responds: “Two ways.