Contact: Colleen Roche/Jack Deacy (212) 788-2958
The Exhibit will feature the Yankees 1998 World Series Trophy, 1996 World Series Trophy, memorabilia and photos from the 1998 season. A bat from Home Run King Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs, who hit 66 home runs this season, will also be on view.
Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, November 18, the exhibit will be on view to all New Yorkers seven days a week from 10 am to 3 pm. Those who wish to view the exhibit must enter the Tweed Courthouse at 52 Chambers Street between Broadway and Centre Street in Lower Manhattan.
"The opening of an exhibit like tonight's is a moment of pure pleasure for me, " Mayor Giuliani said. "The pictures gracing the walls here in the lobby of the Tweed Courthouse provide a chronology of a spectacular post-season in Yankee baseball.
"As a life long, diehard Yankee fan, only in my wildest dreams did I imagine that the Yankees would win not one, but two World Series during my time as Mayor of New York City," the Mayor continued. "And if you had said to me that the second of those two World Series championships would cap a season in which the Yankees achieved the best regular season record in the history of the American League and win 125 games in all - the most games that any baseball team has ever won -- I would have said that you must have been joking. But, like so many things in our City these days, what was once a dream has become a reality.
"On behalf of all New Yorkers, I want to thank the 1998 World Champion Yankees, George Steinbrenner, and Joe Torre for bringing such a spirit of joy and excellence to the City. Their exemplification of teamwork and grace under pressure stands as a lesson to all of us all. They are a team that baseball fans in and out of New York will be talking about for years to come," the Mayor concluded.
Photos for the exhibit, taken by the photographers of the City Hall Photo Unit and the New York Police Department Photo Unit, portray the Pre-World Series Pep Rally, the highlights of the World Series sweep against the San Diego Padres, and the Ticker Tape Parade up the Canyon of Heroes.