"It's a competitive system and they're trying to win," said the father, who could not stop beaming at seeing his son in a Yankee shirt.

Consider that his 1960 pinstriped Yankee shirt was auctioned for $111,000 at Leland's last week.

He wore a Yankee shirt and a smile and seemed rather upbeat.

The young French-Swiss girl was wearing a navy blue Yankee shirt with BOGGS 12 on the back.

I had seen a colleague buy a Yankee shirt just like it when we came out of the giddy catacombs of Yankee Stadium at 1 A.M.

Mark Eques galloped onto the field wearing his Yankee shirt and the crowd went wild.

On their roof, they had positioned a simulation of a corpse for Halloween purposes and she knew that Bobby was threatening to put a Yankee shirt on the deceased.

I'll go to a Yankee game and wear my Yankee shirt.

Serissa Sacca, 6, was wearing a Yankee shirt, but declaiming, "Mets rule!"

Some fans were wearing anything that smacked of New York, even a few odd Yankee shirts and caps.