In winning the franchise's 24th world championship, the Yankees sailed through the Fall Classic the same way they had sailed through the regular season and two American League playoff rounds. They won a major-league record 125 regular-season and postseason games. To find another Yankees team that won with more regularity, you have to go back to the 1927 Murderers' Row Yankees that featured Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, and that team is well-represented in Monument Park.

Of course, the 1998 Yankees will happily settle for the world championship trophy and the right to make the argument that they are -- just possibly -- the greatest team in baseball history, if you're talking single-season performance. The Yankees won the most games in American League history and they did what the winningest regular- season team, the 1906 Chicago Cubs, could not.

The crowd of 65,427, the largest to see a baseball game in San Diego, maintained a deafening roar as [Kevin] Brown and [Andy] Pettitte hooked up in a scoreless pitching duel into the sixth inning, but Bernie Williams finally brought home the first run of the game with an RBI chopper back to the mound. The Yankees added two runs in the eighth on an RBI single by Scott Brosius and a sacrifice fly by rookie left fielder Ricky Ledee.