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Blake Johnson /p>

There was once a standing joke that if the Yankees hadn't clinched the pennant by Labor Day there should be a Congressional investigation. But if the secret was simply the wealth of the NYC market, then how come Stoneham had to move the Giants to San Francisco, and O'Malley move "dem Bums" to Los Angeles? And how come the Mets, theoretically with the access to the same wealth and broadcast markets for the last 45 years, have a relatively abysmal record?

The first serious attempt to "break up the Yankees" occurred when the player draft was instituted, and it worked. When mortality took away the Mick and all his team mates, the player draft carefully controlled who got whom, but most importantly the Topping family sold out to CBS, Yankee fans of the 1970s were no happier than Mets fans.

But then George Steinbrenner bought the team, and put his big bucks where his big mouth was. And the rest is history.

p>It's not the market. It's not the "lottery of life." It's the right man with the right vision and the will to make it happen. Nothing new. br> -- Frank Natoli br> Newton, New Jersey /p> p> KEYES TO SUCCESS br> Re: W. James Antle III's Constitutionally Contentious :

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