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Article: Center field is Williams' playground; Bernie Williams, roaming the same center field that Mickey Mantle once roamed, is the talk of the Yankees entering the World Series.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 20, 1996
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Bernie Williams has seized baseball's grandest stage. Years removed from his somnambulant reputation, decades after starring in Puerto Rico's Mickey Mantle Little League, Williams has become the Yankees' moving monument. He is a worthy tenant of DiMaggio's and Mantle's center field, a player who, for this October, has strode confidently in the shadows cast by Monument Park.
Too late, at 28, to erect a monumental career of his own, Williams nevertheless has emerged this month as the best player on the most intriguing team in baseball. He will play in his first World Series, will again accept Mantle's mantle, whenever the rains stop pelting The Stadium.
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