Deja vu all over again

摘要

In American sporting lore, October marks the run-up to the Fall Classic—baseball's presumptuously named professional championship, the World Series. One perennial contender for the crown is the New York Yankees, a team that evokes extreme emotions of either rabid support or detestation when their name is mentioned. The Yankees have been eliminated from this year's playoffs (a result that elicited no tears from this reporter), but the wacky spirit of one of the team's legendary players has become a staple of American culture, regardless of whether the boys of summer are on the playing field.