Neil Best
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.
The Yankees did all they could last decade to build a new Yankee Stadium that looked and felt like old Yankee Stadium - with wider concourses and craftier beers, of course.
Mission accomplished. Then the team itself emphasized the point by winning the World Series in its first season there, just as it often had across the street.
Citi Field? From Day One it bore no physical resemblance to Shea Stadium. Citi Field has been a mostly quaint and quirky new home that was a welcome departure from the obsolete dump it replaced.