1999 World Series

The 1999 World Series matched the defending champion New York Yankees against the Atlanta Braves, with the Yankees sweeping the Series in four games for their second title in a row and 25th overall.

Trivia

• Game 2 was perhaps most noteworthy due to an awkward, live on-camera interview between NBC sportscaster Jim Gray and Pete Rose, who was in attendance as a member of MasterCard's All Century Team. Gray came under fire by fans for his aggressive questioning of Rose's gambling habits which ultimately got him banned from Major League Baseball ten years earlier. In protest, Chad Curtis, who hit a game winning home run in Game 3 blew off Gray's request for an interview on live television.
• The Yankees players were each paid $326,000 for this particular World Championship.
• Hours before the start of Game 4, Yankees outfielder Paul O'Neill received word of his father's death.
• The 1999 New York Yankees became the first team to win the World Series in consecutive sweeps since the 1938-1939 Yankees.
• Many in the media said that this series would determine who "the team of the nineties" was because the Braves and the Yankees had been the two most dominant teams of the decade.