We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.
I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.
When I was with the Yankees in 1978, we were playing Baltimore at Yankee Stadium, and the score was 3 - 3 going into the bottom of the ninth inning. I led off against Tippy Martinez - a little left-hander who always gave me trouble - and the count went to three-and-oh.
It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.
I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.
Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.
When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
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