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...then there’s the whole Yankees-Kirkland connection. Like the Bronx Bombers, Kirkland—currently in fourth place in the House standings—has dominated the Strauss Cup history, having won 20 championships since the beginning of the competition in 1937. In the same time, the Yanks have won 21 World Series. Such numbers are monumental in comparison to Dunster and the Red Sox, who have won just five Strauss Cups and World Series, respectively, but none for at least forty years...
...city where he was born, and playing in the stadium he has always considered his favorite. "I've given you a few political answers today," he says, admitting that he has Ari Fleischered some of his responses. "But Yankee Stadium has the history, the fans, the ghosts, the Bronx." The road back has been a long one. He moved to the Dominican Republic when he was 4. When he was 9, his father left the family, and Rodriguez settled with his mother and two siblings near Miami. He was the top draft pick in 1993, signing with Seattle, and moved...
...after their devastating play-off loss last fall, thought they had secured Rodriguez's services this winter. But negotiations stalled, and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner stole A-Rod as if he were a tire on a Volvo with Massachusetts plates sitting in the wrong part of the South Bronx. And while he's assured of being hated in every other stadium, success in the Bronx isn't a given. "New York is scary," says Rodriguez. "It's an enormous challenge." He's not just tempering expectations. High-caliber athletes such as Kenny Rogers, Ed Whitson and Jeff Weaver have floundered...
Gelando (George from Canada) Sciascia. Found dumped in the Bronx in March '99 with five bullet holes in his head and torso. The coiffed Sicilian ran the Bonannos' Montreal franchise. According to court documents, he quarreled with another captain, Anthony Grazino, over the latter's supposed cocaine use. Massino, the government claims, backed Grazino and said Sciascia "had to go." This is the one murder charge that doesn't date back to the Reagan years, and Massino could be executed for the crime because it occurred after '94--when a federal murder-in-aid-of-racketeering law was updated...
...This is the broadest and deepest prosecution ever of a New York City organized-crime family," says U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf. "Thirty-five defendants are facing 23 murder or attempted-murder charges." Rapid-fire indictments have scooped up Bonannos from Staten Island to the Bronx. In addition to squeezing informants and clocking countless hours of surveillance, two C-10 agents used "forensic accounting" techniques to follow a paper trail through Massino's murky bookkeeping. The knockout blow was delivered in September, when James (Big Lou) Tartaglione recorded acting Bonanno boss Anthony (Tony Green) Urso allegedly conspiring to murder the families...