How will history rank the 1998 Yankees among baseball's greatest teams ever? (SN Archive)

The article, 'The 98 Yankees: Greatest season, but not greatest team' by Michael Knisley, originally appeared as the cover story in the Nov. 2, 1998 issue of The Sporting News.While the champagne-soaked jamboree to fete the Yankees' latest World Series championship swirls around the visiting clubhouse at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, “The Straw That Stirs the Drink” stays in a hallway and watches the scene unfold some 15 yards away.The revelry Reggie Jackson sees, while certainly joyous and heartfelt, can hardly be called spontaneous, since this 24th World Series title for the Yankees has been a fait accompli, or so it seems in retrospect, almost from the time New York broke spring training in Tampa late last March.The Yankees were such a sure thing this summer that they could have been ic