The books in Brian Cashman’s Yankee Stadium office are arranged neatly in two groups, a collection amalgamated over his time as the team’s general manager. Cashman has been in charge for 20 years now, with Saturday representing the anniversary of the day the Yankees announced his hiring.
“Twenty years, in New York,” a rival general manager mused earlier this week. “That’s, what, 140 dog years? Two hundred years?”
During Cashman’s two decades as GM, the New York Knicks have had nine GMs (or someone of equivalent power). The famously stable New York Giants have had three, as have the New York Rangers.