1998 NEW YORK YANKEES WORLD SERIES GAME 1 STARTERS

BY JOEL REUTER

For many, nostalgia remains the driving force behind baseball card collecting, and that’s how I arrived at the idea of One-Sheet Collections.

It’s a simple concept with infinite possibilities.

Take a single nine-pocket sheet and a reasonable $50 budget, and build a ninecard collection with a unifying theme.

For the first edition of this series, we turned our attention to a team that many consider to be among the best in baseball history. The 1998 New York Yankees won 114 games during the regular season and steamrolled through the playoffs, sweeping the San Diego Padres in the World Series.

The pitching staff was solid, but it was a stacked lineup that paced the majors with 965 runs scored that was the driving force behind the team’s success.

In honor of that vaunted lineup, our first One-Sheet Collection will focus on the rookie card of each player who was penciled into the Yankees’ starting lineup for Game 1 of the 1998 World Series.