The Greatest Living Yankee

Over at SportsWorld, I play off George Vecsey's column in The New York Times naming Whitey Ford as the Greatest Living Yankee. I like George a lot but I find this to be silly. If Greatest Living Yankee is an actual title, then it belongs to Derek Jeter, and I don't think anyone else is particularly close.

Well, that's not exactly right: In the piece, I d…