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They kept coming in waves of pinstripes and Yankee jackets and caps down Church St., walking against the traffic, walking toward the last of the baseball season, walking downtown toward the last day of the Yankees until spring.

They came in their Jeter No. 2 jerseys, a lot of those, always a lot of Jeter jerseys, and Matsui 55's, and even a few with No. 7 for Mickey Mantle on their backs, and all of them were part of the biggest baseball crowd ever assembled.