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Yankees Social Media Spotlight: Recalling perfection

Related Topics: Yogi Berra, David Cone, Don Larsen

It’s Sunday once again, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! It was an absolutely brutal week for Yankees fans, with the team not winning their first game of the week until Friday night! Fortunately, social media this week gives us a great opportunity to look backwards into one of the greatest days in baseball history and forward into the decades to come. Let’s get started!

David “Perfection” Cone

July 18, 1999, was destined to be one of the greatest days in Yankee history. On that day, the Yankees honored Yogi Berra, the former catcher, coach, manager, World War II vet, and living legend who had been estranged from the team for years but had recently reconciled with George Steinbrenner.