Pinstripe Alley's Top 100 Yankees

The big reveal, number 4 is actually.....

I should add the following in order better to explain my dislike of some of these rankings (e.g., the Gardner one esp.) and just disagreement with the last one (Jeter over DiMaggio). (I don't much like O'Neill b/c of his publicly known extracurricular or non-baseball preference, but still would rank him where Pinstripe's do as a Yankee player.) 

My explanation would take off from a Marshall McCluhan joke ("The medium is the message" guy) that he liked to tell: "A lady is walking pushing a baby carriage in which is her new child, a baby girl. Down the walk, approaching, is an acquaintance she has not seen in some time. They greet each other and the friend immediately says, 'You have a new baby!' And looking in the carriage says, 'My she’s beautiful!' 'O that’s nothing,' the mother says, 'You should see the pictures we have of her.'” Translation for my purposes here: We grew up in the "TV" generation; the Yankee players we knew about and liked came filtered mostly first hand within that medium. DiMaggio in his great years missed that. Jeter got famous within it, and because we witnessed him through that medium--the same with Mantle--we naturally tend to want to have "been there," that is, witnessed a great one like Jeter, which allows one to jump the gate and rate him ahead of the likes of a Joe D. And how else in anyone's name does someone like Gardner get ranked at all, and then near the middle of the 100 best Yankees, when someone like Gene Woodling, who was an instrumental LF and hitter for the Yankees (whom Stengel platooned w/ Hank Bauer often) did't get ranked at all, although he played on five WS winning Yankee teams in the 50's! I don't buy it, no matter than in his case he came in a trade with Cleveland at time. I'd term such a Gardner ranking and a Woodling non-ranking examples of Electronic Age Myopia. 

But hey, as I noted, mine is just one person's opinion, and in Baseball Land, think of how many of those exist to throw doubt onto anyone's preferred choice ballplayers.