Solving the Yankee Equation, One Number at a Time

Michael Fishman has been on a surfboard once in his life — and it was fleeting, a lesson he took with his wife on their honeymoon in Hawaii.

So when Billy Eppler, an avid surfer and Fishman’s colleague with the Yankees, cajoled some of his office mates into entering Surfer Magazine’s fantasy surfing contest years ago, he had little idea what he was unleashing.