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Written by Marty Appel
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
Following the 1977 World Series title, the 1978 New York Yankees -- who had won their first WS since 1962 -- were a team in turmoil. If the Bronx was burning the previous summer, the Bombers were an inferno in 1978, one that would eventually cost manager Billy Martin his job. Marty Appel, who had left the team as its PR Director following the Series in '77, recalled that 1978 season -- his first on the outside looking in aince 1968 -- for Yankees Magazine.
For a long period in 1978, as spring wound into summer,
Yankee fans were beginning to accept the fact that ’78
was going to be a Red Sox year. A lot of baseball writers were
saying that the ’78 Bosox, under Don Zimmer, were one
of the elite teams of all times, certainly of Boston history,
and that the defending world champion Yankees just weren’t
their equal that year.
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