Late on the night of Oct. 21, 1998, in the charming port city of San Diego, you could feel the relief and exhaustion. Primarily the exhaustion.
I’m pretty sure those senses dominated those Yankees after they validated their record-setting regular season by steamrolling the overmatched Padres to win their 24th World Series title. I know for certain that’s what I experienced as my first full year as a baseball beat writer arrived at its historic conclusion.
Yeah, I started this baseball-reporting gig, working for The Record, in New Jersey’s Bergen County, on quite the memorable note, the equivalent of your first visit to a movie set just happening to be “Star Wars.