Yesterday, he went 1 for 4, getting the first hit of the Yankee season.

As it turned out, that was the first of at least nine consecutive Yankee seasons without a first-place finish.

The additions have become important factors in the reversal of a Yankee season that once seemed lost.

Cone said that before Atlanta's 4-0 victory last night put the end of the Yankee season in sight.

Does this sound like a theme for the Yankee season yet?

"After the Yankee season last year, I left," he said.

In the early weeks of the Yankee season, one pitcher's uncertainty has been another's opportunity.

Many were reserved for the 16,000 or so Yankee season ticket holders.

It is only mid-October, much too soon for Yankee seasons to end.

The most significant 10-minute pitching session in this long Yankee season lasted only seven minutes today.