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...Mattingly were the most consistent performers during a decade of disappointments for the Bronx Bombers. While Mattingly is still around (although he's not too fond of George, and has had to endure inane criticism from General Manager Gene Michael about, of all things, his hair length), Winfield was traded to California in 1990 for injury-prone pitcher Mike Witt...
...Winfield still shines. At the age of 41, the oldest Blue Jay still slugged over 20 homers (hack that I am, I don't have his 1992 stats in front of me) and provided leadership to a motley crew of mercenaries culled from points south to capture the flag...
...when the postseason rolled around, Winfield carried a huge monkey on his back, a veritable gorilla. In 1981, his first season with the Yankees, his stellar play brought the American League championship back to the Big Apple. He hit a patch of ice in the World Series, however, eeking out only one hit in 22 at bats. This prompted the first of Steinbrenner's many diatribes against his star, in which he coined the epithet Mr. May, a contrast with the high priest of pressure and Yankee immortal, Reggie Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October...
...Winfield never gave...
Throughout his decade in New York, Winfield patrolled the green pastures of Yankee Stadium with ineffable grace, ran the bases with speed and skill, and at the plate hit for both power and average. Yet all the while he was enduring torrents of abuse from his Grand Inquisitor, the Yankee owner. Winfield's role as the Yankee martyr struggling in the face of unbearable persecution reached epic proportions. He became Odysseus to Steinbrenner's Poseidon. Or perhaps you might call him Job DiMaggio...