BELIEVE

 4 Robin Ventura     3B             5 John Olerud         1B
 6 Melvin Mora       SS/OF          7 Todd Pratt           C
10 Rey Ordonez       SS            12 Shawon Dunston      OF
13 Edgardo Alfonzo   2B            15 Matt Franco      1B/3B
17 Luis Lopez        SS/2B         18 Darryl Hamilton     OF
19 Roger Cedeno      OF            21 Masato Yoshii        P
22 Al Leiter          P            23 Pat Mahomes          P
24 Rickey Henderson  OF            25 Bobby Bonilla    1B/OF
26 Billy Taylor       P            27 Dennis Cook          P
28 Bobby Jones        P            29 Octavio Dotel        P
31 Mike Piazza        C            34 Chuck McElroy        P
35 Rick Reed          P            38 Jeff Tam             P
45 John Franco        P            49 Armando Benitez      P
50 Benny Agbayani    OF            55 Orel Hershiser       P
73 Kenny Rogers       P            99 Turk Wendell         P
Manager: 2 Bobby Valentine. Coaches: 1 Mookie Wilson, 8 Cookie Rojas, 20 Bruce Benedict, 52 Dave Wallace, 53 Mickey Brantley, 54 Al Jackson. General Manager: Steve Phillips.

97-66, including one-game playoff (5-0) vs. Cincinnati for N.L. Wild Card.

Won NLDS over Arizona, 8-4; 2-7; 9-2; 4-3 (10).

Lost NLCS to Atlanta, 2-4; 3-4; 0-1; 3-2; 4 (7)-3 (15); 9-10 (11).

Our mojo will always be risin'...

Anchored the boring homepage, 10/20/99-11/20/99.
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. Mike Fornabaio -- mef17@oocities.com
What that all means, really, is I don't want to forget these guys... I thought my childhood ended with the 1996-97 Rangers, another team that almost blew it all in the regular season but had a special, spectacular playoff run. Lucky me -- I got my childhood back...