There are few people better qualified to speak about the potentially transformative winter in Big Apple baseball than Bernie Williams, who spent his entire 16-year career with the Yankees and hit .297 while winning four Gold Gloves in centerfield and helping the Bronx Bombers win four World Series titles from 1996 through 2001.
Williams took a few minutes to talk the Yankees, Mets and Juan Soto on Thursday, when he conducted interviews in advance of Rare Disease Day, which is acknowledged every Feb. 28. He has worked to raise awareness of interstitial lung diseases since 2001, when Williams’ father, Bernabe Sr., died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
