Article: showing their age; Saddled with a bunch of players in their mid-30s struggling to produce, the last-place Yankees no longer have the look of a dominant team.(SPORTS)(JIM SOUHAN)

Byline: JIM SOUHAN; STAFF WRITER

The Yankees come to town today, sweeping in with all the grandeur of an off-Broadway show playing one of the Twin Cities' nicer bowling alleys. These are not your grandfather's Yankees, who dominated the sports world. These are not your father's Yankees, who helped revitalize baseball's popularity. This graying 2008 edition is the reincarnation of the mid-'70s Yankees of Horace Clarke and the early `90s Yankees of Danny Tartabull, who represented poorly-spent riches and who played with such lifelessness that the East Coast media elite was fooled into thinking that the entire sport was dying, when in fact it was only Yankee Pride ...

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