Mariano Rivera News

Even more than Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia was the biggest offseason acquisition for the New York Yankees last year.

Holiday Shopping 2009 has been off to a blazing start at the MLB.com Shop since Mariano Rivera got Shane Victorino to ground out earlier this month, and it is about to shift into overdrive with Black Friday and Cyber Monday just ahead.

Last year at this time I was in Philadelphia celebrating a World Series championship with 2 million of my closest friends.

The Yankees' latest feat has already been deemed Hall of Fame-worthy. Artifacts from baseball's most memorable moments from this past postseason -- one that saw the Yankees notch their 27th World Series championship -- have been put on display at the Autumn Glory exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.

With Upper Deck's baseball products soon to be bereft of MLB team logos and trademarks, it's been natural to wonder what the company would come up with to attract collectors to its 2010 baseball line.

I'm back in the swing of things following a weekend away with my family, just in time for the bulk of the BBWAA awards to be handed out.

Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera of the world champion Yankees. Raw talent, ambition, dedication, strong management, luck - all these factors helped drive the Yankees to their impressive, World Series-winning season.

Water flows down hill. The earth spins on its invisible axis. The leaves turn a multitude of colors in the fall.

B ack in December, right before Christmas, the Yankees agreed to an eight-year, $180 million contract with first-baseman Mark Teixeira, completing a two-week spending spree the likes of which had never been seen in professional sport.

In the afterglow of their team's World Series victory, fans of the New York Yankees have been passing around what looks like a Nike ad , listing 15 reasons why the Yankees make their otherwise apparently quite shitty big-city lives bearable.

New York Yankees pitcher John Wetteland celebrates the final out against the Baltimore Orioles during Game 5 of the American League Championship Series.

Yankees fans gathered along downtown Manhattan's "Canyon of Heroes" on Broadway to celebrate the teams' World Series victory on Friday.

It was Thursday morning, but all over the mid-Hudson Yankee fans were still reliving memories of Wednesday night and their team's triumph in the World Series.

As the World Series champion New York Yankees are honored with a parade in Manhattan, Nassau and Suffolk county residents said they'll be hopping early morning trains and staking out prime viewing spots.

NEW YORK -- Notice how it ended the way it began, the World Series' first decade of the 21st century? The New York Yankees with a championship, already looking for the next one.

The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 is now in development and will ship in mid November! This year's book will feature articles by THT's staff as well as Bill James, Tom Tango and Craig Wright.

A fitting end, to a baseball season of unremitting agony, all the way down to the Hated Yankees' fans getting to taunt Pedro, who arrived without his fastball.

Seven-year-old Nikko Andre accidentally blurted out to his teacher that he would be skipping school on Friday so he could go to his first Yankees championship parade.

NEW YORK - As Howie Traudt and his family rode down on the train Friday morning to attend the Yankees' World Series celebration parade, he knew what awaited countless fans like himself.

Johnny Damon soaked it all in as he shared a float with first-timers Nick Swisher and Jerry Hairston Jr.