1998 Yankees Diary: 25 years ago, the Yankees won a shocking game

1998 Yankees Diary, April 24: Yankee Stadium reopens with a win

Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players. In the book's introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels, Posnanski must already have lived more than 200 years.