NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — In advance of the Yankees celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 1996 World Series championship team in mid-August, we here at CBSNewYork.com are launching a retrospective look back at that special season.
Over the next three months, WFAN Yankees beat reporter Sweeny Murti, and WFAN.com columnists Jason Keidel, Ernie Palladino, Steve Silverman and Ryan Chatelain will be providing weekly columns, features and podcasts profiling the players and events that led up to the Yankees ultimately winning their first world title in nearly two decades.
The birth of what turned out to be a modern baseball dynasty started with a team that was coming off a playoff appearance the season before, but was shrouded in mystery.