So Kelly, the Yankees' young second baseman, takes his 0 for 3 and tries to make himself better.

Instead, he watched the young third baseman pull the ball just inside the third-base line for a game-ending hit.

The youngest first baseman the Mets can sign?

The short answer is that their general manager needed a young third baseman, and Teahen was the most likely candidate.

The young second baseman survived and went on to have a solid 18-year career, playing more games at second than anyone in Yankees history.

"I love the young first baseman," he said of David Segui, the rookie who played the last seven weeks of the season.

The Yankee captain and the young second baseman from Brooklyn, who would later be named co-captain, became forever close.

"We went from 100 losses to this, we turned it around," said Will Clark, the young first baseman.

Brent Abernathy, a young second baseman, said the players were not awed by the Yankees at all.

Now, as it turns out, they gave up a promising young third baseman for nothing.