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For one of the charter franchises of American league baseball, it is quite difficult to come up with a list of the top 5 Yankees of all time because there are simply too many good Yankees out there. Still, here are some of players who have shown their mettle and carved their names in Yankee field.

Babe Ruth is the most popular and probably the greatest Yankee player there is, having helped define the game of baseball. In his 15-year stint with the Yankees, he hit a record 714 home runs and 2,213 RBI, with a slugging percentage of .711. He was also responsible for leading the Yankees to 12 consecutive World Series and also made popular the “Called Shot” during the 1932 World Series.

Lou Gehrig was the best first baseman there ever was, and in his 17 years with the Yankees, he hit an all-time record of 23 grand slams and won two MVP awards. The first award was in 1927 when he had a 175 RBI, and the second was in 1936 where he hit 49 homeruns with a 152 RBI and .354 batting average. He has won 6 World Series and has been an All-Star for seven times. He also earns the distinction of hitting 4 homeruns in one game, on that historic day of June 3, 1932 which only a handful had attempted to match. He was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1939.

Joe DiMaggio set an all-time record with a 56-game hitting streak which remains unsurpassed till the present time. In all his playing years, he was the only consistent All Star. He also led the Yankees to 10 pennants and 10 World titles.

Mickey Mantle was the greatest switch hitter but was made even more famous for engaging in a home run record race against Roger Maris. He was named American League MVP thrice and was named as an Al Star 20 times. He also owns the record for having the most home runs in the World Series at 18.

Finally, there is Whitey Ford who is one of the greatest pitchers of all time. During his 17 year stint with the Yankees, he had an ERA of 2.75 complimenting an impressive 236-106 win-loss record. He won an American League CY Young Award in 1961 when he had an ERA of 3.21. He was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1974 and was a 10-time All Star and six-time World Series Champion.

There are many ways to get to Yankee Stadium from New Jersey and New York.

From New Jersey the best way would be using the George Washington Bridge, taking eastbound Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95 North) and then take the exit for the Major Deegan Expressway, which is I-87. From the Cross Bronx Expressway you can also take Exit 2A, which is Jerome Avenue, making a right off the exit and this will bring you straight to Yankee Stadium.

From Manhattan (East side) you can take the FDR to exit 18, drive over the bridge, and then just follow the signs to the Major Deegan Expressway. From the West side you would take the Henry Hudson Parkway (north) to exit 14, where you will get on the Cross Bronx Expressway and just take the exit to the Major Deegan.

From Brooklyn you can take the Brooklyn/Queens Expressway east and drive over the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, and then just look for signs for the Bronx and the Major Deegan.

From Staten Island you will take the Staten Island Expressway to the Brooklyn/Queens Expressway east and go over the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge and look for the signs for the Bronx and the Major Deegan.

From Long Island, get on the White Stone Expressway or Throgs Neck and follow it to I-95 South, which will eventually become the Cross Bronx Expressway. Follow signs to the Major Deegan Expresway, (I-87).

From Westchester, from I-87, follow signs to the Major Deegan.

No one would be surprised if Yankees fans like Ira Riklis were feeling a little restless about the team’s performance thus far this September. Their team has lost 13 of 23 games so far this month, including the first 4-game losing streak at home. In the process, they’ve fallen 1 ½ games behind the Tampa Bay Rays for the top AL spot in the playoffs. All this while the season’s winding down to the last ten games.

There’s no reason to push the panic button of course. The magic number for the team making the playoffs remains at any combination of three Yankee wins or Boston Red Sox losses. Still, the team brought in a motivational speaker from another sport in a closed-door meeting prior to yesterday’s game. Tony Dungy, the former Super Bowl winning coach of the Indianapolis Colts spent about five minutes speaking with the players. His main message: “It’s not necessarily who has the most talent, but what team sticks together and executes fundamentals the best.” It’s a winning formula, one that Ira Riklis might tell applies to business as well as to sports.

Ira Riklis’ New York Yankees would have loved to have swept their division rivals Tampa Bay Rays in the four-game home series that ended last night. But as is often the case with people as well as sports teams, they didn’t get all they wanted. The series ended up as a two-two tie. Still, that was good enough to allow the Bronx Bombers to keep a slim, half-game lead in the standing as we head into the final weeks.

Now, the Yankees host their arch-rivals, the Boston Red Sox for a three-game weekend series. In recent years, this end-of-the-season series between the two teams has helped decide who will be in the playoffs and which team will have home-field advantage. This year is different. Pretty much the best the Red Sox can do is serve as spoilers to give the edge to the Rays. But fans like Ira Riklis will still have an eye on the games. Old rivalries die hard, and it would be good for Yankees to inch a little further ahead in the standings.

The old tongue-in-cheek political phrase “vote early, vote often,” could be paraphrased to fit the Yankees’ strategy for dispatching the rival Tampa Bay Rays last night in Yankee Stadium. Ira Riklis’ favorite American League team did just that, racking up five runs in the first inning, then playing the Ray even the rest of the way to earn an 8-3 victory. The game marked the beginning of the last regular-season series between the two teams prior to an almost certain post-season match up.

While this series won’t necessarily determine which team will wind up on top of the American League with the best record in baseball, it’s a good first step. The victory moved the Yankees up 2 ½ games over the Rays. And combined with a Red Sox lost, it put the magic number (yes, we’re at that time of the season when we’re talking magic numbers!) for the Yankees to clinch a playoff spot at three. While fans like Ira Riklis have been confident all year long that the team would make it to the post season to defend their World Championship, this win puts them one giant step closer to doing so!

The last time Yankees ace Andy Pettitte pitched for the team was way back in mid-July. He hobbled off the field after that outing with a groin injury that was supposed to take him out of the lineup for a few weeks. Now, nine weeks later and after several setbacks he’s finally back. Yesterday, on a beautiful September Sunday afternoon, he threw three 6 solid innings against the Baltimore Orioles. And while the Yankees ended up losing the game in 11 innings, his performance heartened fans like Ira Riklis.

With October and the playoffs just around, his return comes not a moment too soon. The team’s being cautious with him with at this point, allowing him to pitch back into share without risking another injury. While the team would love to finish atop the AL East as conference champions, they’re more concerned at the moment with keeping players healthy and fit going into the post season. It’s a strategy Ira Riklis can understand. As a businessman, you always keep your eye on the ultimate goal, which in this case is to win the World Championship, not the conference championship.

Ira Riklis’ Yankees dropped out of first place yesterday after losing two out of three games to the Tampa Bay Rays in Florida. But soon they’ll have a chance to repay the “favor” as they host the Rays in an upcoming series at Yankees Stadium. And fans lucky enough to attend the game there next Monday night will get to witness the team’s official ceremony in honor of George M. Steinbrenner III, the club’s late principal owner.

Known as “The Boss,” Steinbrenner was a forceful personality. But sometimes that’s what it takes to lead a group of perennial champions. Fans like Ira Riklis remember that the Yankees won seven World Series championships under his stewardship. Monday night’s memorial will begin with a special introduction followed by the unveiling of a monument to Steinbrenner in the stadium’s Monument Park. His will be the seventh monument there and he’ll be the first owner so honored. He’ll be in good company alongside Miller Huggins (1932), Lou Gehrig (1941), Babe Ruth (1949), Mickey Mantle (1996) and Joe DiMaggio (1999).

While there’s plenty of time—and plenty of drama—left in the 2010 season, Major League baseball has just released the 2011 schedule. And Ira Riklis suggests that if you love the Yankees as he does, and you can possibly make the game, that you mark your calendar for Tuesday, March 31. That’s the date of first opening day game (against the Detroit Tigers) ever to be held at the new Yankee Stadium.

With any luck (and good, solid team play for the rest of this season), it will mark the Bronx Bombers’ pursuit of a three-peat for third World Championship in a row. If you can’t make it that day, don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of great home games next year. If you can make one, you should do it. Before the new stadium opened last year, Ira Riklis wondered whether it could possibly live up to the many memories long-time Yankees fans have of the old stadium. But after his first game he came away impressed. The new facility is top-notch in every way from the comfortable seats, great food and fantastic scoreboard that shows everything you’d want to know about the game and other games going on, all larger than life.