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The New York Yankees have had many coaches in its baseball history and a few of them will never be forgotten. Yankees coach, Joe Torre, coaching 1996 to present, and Billy Martin coached for 3 different periods totaling 8 years, have both won The World Series while going through many ups and downs to accomplish their dreams. Joe Torre grew up dreaming to one day win the World Series just like he watched his older brother Frank win it in the 1957 game for Milwaukee Braves. But as a seventeen year-old kid, he knew he was far from that dream. Joe was proud of his brother that he would go back to his friends bragging about how is brother was a World Series Champion and had the ring to prove it. Frank would always tease Joe by saying “I have two World Series rings. Where’s yours?” Joe could never say anything to that until his dream came true in 1996, thirty-nine years later. As a major league player Torre went from being an MVP player to a part-time player through out the years of 1960-1977. In 1975, playing for the Mets, Torre knew it was all coming to an end, when he had the worst season on his career, batting .247. He started to think playing baseball was a job and not enjoying it anymore, like he once thought it