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Article: NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST, YANKS

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BOB KLAPISCH
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
10-31-1999
NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST, YANKS
By BOB KLAPISCH
Date: 10-31-1999, Sunday
Section: SPORTS
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday

Joe Torre needed several seconds to digest the news, which meant
his office was filled by a thick silence. That was understandable. After
all, who wasn't appalled to learn that Bobby Bonilla and Rickey
Henderson had been playing cards in the Mets' clubhouse during the final
innings of Game 6 of the National League Championship Series?

Torre, in fact, needed to hear it twice.

"They were doing what?" the Yankee manager asked the other day,
shaking his head in disgust. Torre took a few steps around the room,
mumbling: ...

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