On this day in 1998: After spending 135 days in first place and winning their division, the Yankees sweep the Padres to capture their 24th World Series championship. The Yankees 125 wins, combining regular season (114) and playoffs (11) victories, are the most by a championship team.

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1. Best team in baseball history.

2. The dark ages, before we had Anthony Volpe

3. The History Channel ™️

4. Ah the good ole days, when the franchise was well run and championships meant more than money

5. Great team!!!!

6. As a kid, I just couldn’t understand the firing of Joe Torre. Made no sense to me.

7. “It doesn’t get better than this”

8. This was my favorite

9. They must have gotten lucky — I’ve heard the playoffs are a crapshoot.

10. this need to be on it own document series especially David Wells Perfect Game

11. Before Cashman really sunk his teeth into this team and destroyed it

12. Greatest team I have seen in my lifetime. No one was a superstar yet, just guys who knew how to win and did the small things perfectly.

13. I am tired of 27-year old memories.

    It is time for some new memories.

    It is time to fire Brian Cashman.

14. I remember watching this and those teams, but for people who aren’t old enough to have done so this must look like ancient history. The years have passed this organization by.

15. What a joy that team was.  The complete embodiment of what the org used to be.  They worked hard up and down the lineup, wearing down pitchers with nonstop professional ABs.  Bullpen and rotation went equally hard.

    But even more than that the *entire team* showed up every game to win.  There was no playing down to your opponents or managing for tomorrow.  These guys came into every game fully expecting to stomp whoever they were facing.

16. Went to game 2 of the World Series. Our 9 hitter (Brosius) homered off of their closer, best pitcher and future hofer Hoffman. To me that encapsulated the entire series.

17. Loved that season and that team!

18. I was in San Diego for this. The complete deflation by the city was hysterical.

19. Ehh that year was a crapshoot. Yankees just got lucky in the postseason. And then again the next year. And the next year. They were really lucky in the 90s.

20. GOAT team

21. Best team I’ve ever seen. They steam rolled everyone in the post season

22. Their [baseball reference page](https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1998.shtml) is wild. Almost every starting hitter and pitcher were 3+ war players. Very deep team.

23. I had this on vhs like the 99/00 World Series doc I would watch those so much.

24. The GOATs

25. That team started out like 1-6 or something like that. They played out of their minds from that point on and it was an incredible team to watch. The entire lineup and coaching staff was so much fun to root for.

26. I was a Yankees fan since the 1977 World Series win over the Dodgers. I was then a little league baseball player in Winnipeg, Manitoba who thought New York City and the Yankees were just so cool. I moved to the city as a young adult in 1998. And we won and won again and again. 1998 was such a great year and victory.

27. Back when we used to celebrate at other teams stadiums lol.

28. Best team that I ever saw.

29. I turned 12 after that WS. Now I’m about to turn 40 next year. Time flies but still not tired of those moments!

30. That’s the blueprint, why failing last 25+ years?