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Article: First round: Yankees 1, David Wells 0.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- April 26, 1999
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NEW YORK _ It was David Letterman's, Howard Stern's and the New York City Night Life Association's favorite game of the year. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Back on that big off-Broadway stage in The Bronx, New Yawk on Friday night, ladies and gentleman: Their favorite pudgeballish Manhattan-worshipping lefthanded World Series hero, the inimitable David Wells.
When last this man left this stage, you realize, his life was a whole lot different. He wore pinstripes then. He had just won Game 1 of the World Series then. He was being large. He was living large.
He was a cult hero to millions of otherwise-normal people. He was the Stern ...