Mark Feinsand has been covering Major League Baseball since 2001, spending the first 16 of those seasons on the New York Yankees beat for MLB.com (2001-06) and the New York Daily News (2007-16). He returned to MLB.com as an executive reporter before the 2017 season. He is the author of The New York Yankees Bucket List and the co-author of Mission 27. Joe Torre was the manager of the New York Yankees from 1996 to 2007, guiding the club to six pennants and four World Series championships during that time. He has served as a special assistant to the Commissioner of Baseball since 2020 and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014.