Happy Paul O'Neill Day! Here are 10 of his greatest moments as a New York Yankee
All the GIFs you need to celebrate Paul O'Neill Day
In addition to calling Yankees games and showing up Michael Jordan on the links, Paul O'Neill was also pretty good at baseball or something. Over the course of his 17-year career, The Warrior maintained a .288 average and was a part of five World Series championship teams for the Reds and Yankees (the Yanks sent Roberto Kelly to Cincinnati for him in 1992).
On Saturday, the Bronx Bombers are celebrating O'Neill's contributions to the franchise and baseball at-large with Paul O'Neill Day. In the spirit of the celebraish, we went ahead and compiled all of the GIFs you'll need to properly celebrate, like that time he hit three homers in a game back in '95:
And when he caught the last out of David Wells' perfect game:
Or the time he saved David Cone's perfect game with a spectacular catch:
Or when he caught the last out of Game 5 of the 1996 World Series:
And subsequently somersaulted over the pile when the team was celebrating the big win a game later:
And that time he was part of back-to-back-to-back homers in the 1997 ALDS:
Or when he singled to give the Yanks the lead in the '99 series:
And eventually left the field crying:
Or that time that fans packed Yankee Stadium for Game 5 of the 2001 World Series and chanted his name:
And, of course, that time Kramer promised a sick little kid that O'Neill would belt two homers in a game for him:
Happy Paul O'Neill Day, everybody. Here's to hoping at least one right fielder celebrates by kicking a live ball this weekend: