TORONTO — The clip is easy to find online, so you could see what it looked like. Crank the volume and you might even be able to approximate what the 57,126 in attendance that night made it sound like.

So let’s see if I can make you appreciate what it felt like. Bottom of the sixth. Tied 2-2. Oct. 4, 1995, at Yankee Stadium. That would be the previous Yankee Stadium. Not the artificial-noise mall they play in now. But a baseball cathedral — with all the age and creaks to match. And so it would move, sway, bounce in good moments.

The Yankees had not had many good moments for more than a decade, when Don Mattingly was a great baseball Odysseus and the playoffs were his unreachable Ithaca. But now he had a team and a time, so much so that he had decided in September to damn his damaged back

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