 A year after captain Don Mattingly 's retirement in 1995 , the Yankees won the 1996 World Series . It was their first in 18 years and the first of former Red Sox player Wade Boggs ' career , coming almost 10 years to the day he lost it to Mets . Boggs celebrated the victory with a memorable moment of jumping on the horse of a NYPD officer during the celebration . The Yankees , like the rest of baseball , were still reeling from what was lost in 1994 , because many members of the 1994 team were not there in 1996 . Showalter said the 1994 strike " sits in my <unk> " , and that he could not watch the World Series because " I feel badly for the fans " . 
