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THERE'S NO TELLING HOW THE Joe Torre Yankees of the past five years (1996-2000) will ultimately be measured against the other great teams in baseball history. However, a three-peat and four world championships in five years has easily qualified them for dynasty status, especially in this era of the three-tiered postseason.
Of course, by now the Yankees have become synonymous with the word dynasty, as baseball's most dominant team over the past century. Since the 1920s, there have been four or five Yankee dynasties, depending how you care to define them, running into each other as they often did. Inevitably, for different reasons, they all came to an end, as this ...