History of the World Series – 2002 By Stan McNeal The Sportng News Robin Williams, zany comic and Giants fan — not necessarily in that order — is chumming up to Bobby Bonds, the father of baseball’s most ridiculous slugger. The two embrace, chat and provide a cool scene for those fortunate enough to be…

History of the World Series – 2001 By Michael Knisley The Sporting News Comebackers! The Diamondbacks won an unforgettable World Series by matching the Yankees’ strengths: confidence, resilience and starting pitching Somehow, Steve Finley laughs. Almost laughs, anyway. Certainly, he grins, an ironic, can-you-believe-it grin out there in center field at Yankee Stadium, near the…

History of the World Series – 2000 By Michael Knisley The Sportng News “You’ve just got to tip your hat to them. They get out there, and they get after it. They get it done. They play good, sound, fundamental baseball. They do all the little things, and that’s what it takes to win championships….

History of the World Series – 1999 By Michael Knisley The Sportng News By sweeping the Braves, the Yankees proved again there’s no team better. Here’s how they’ve accomplished what they’ve accomplished and why it should worry you. You follow baseball, so you already know these New York numbers. Two straight World Series sweeps. Three…

History of the World Series – 1998 By Michael Knisley The Sportng News While the champagne-soaked jamboree to fete the Yankees’ latest World Series championship swirls around the visiting clubhouse at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium, “The Straw That Stirs the Drink” stays in a hallway and watches the scene unfold some 15 yards away. The…

History of the World Series – 1997 By Steve Marantz For The Sportng News A worldly Series; Baseball’s crown jewel ultimately belonged to Jim Leyland’s Marlins, who prevailed over the Indiansin a dramatic finish, but it also belonged to countless others in the game’s global community. Every World Series has a personality all its own….

History of the World Series – 1996 By Steve Marantz For The Sportng News The city that never sleeps is going on a winter-long bender, celebrating as only it can, clutching the Bombers to its bosom with pent-up love and affection, 10 years the barren gap in time since a baseball trophy was brought home…

History of the World Series – 1995 By Steve Marantz For The Sportng News OK, maybe we’re premature. They just won their first World Series since 1957. But if we can agree that dynasties need not win four or five Series, as did the Yankees of the 1930s and 1950s, or even three, as did the…

History of the World Series – 1993 The Carter-vs.-Williams scenario unfolded in a momentous setting, to be sure — the World Series. With Carter and his Toronto teammates leading the ’93 Series by a three games-to-two count over Philadelphia but trailing 6-5 in the ninth inning of Game 6, the Blue Jays went to bat…