October 21, 1928 - October 8, 2020
I grew up watching Whitey, Mickey, Yogi, and the Yankees in general. Some of my earliest memories were watching Baseball with my Grandfather in the 1950s. Been a Yankee fan ever since (Baseball is the only "sport" that I have paid attention to for decades).
RIP Whitey ??¯?ÿ
I grew up watching Whitey, Mickey, Yogi, and the Yankees in general.
Me too. And Roger, and Bobby, and Tony..... ?????ÿ
Growing up in North Florida, I never had a chance to see live MLB until the family went to D.C. in summer of 1959 to visit mom's cousin, Gen. Richard Hagan. The Yankees were in town playing a series with the Senators, and the General took dad and me to the game. Got to see at lot of my boyhood heroes, Yankees Mickey Mantel, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, and Harmon Killebrew with the Senators. As a baseball lover, something you never forget. There were like 4 or 5 homers hit in that game.
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Then, years later, at our local Cub Scout meeting in North Florida, one of my sons came over and asked, ??Daddy, who is Roger Maris? He said something about he used to play baseball.?. It was the real Roger Maris. He had moved his family to Gainesville. Talking to him, and remembering seeing him playing on that field in 1959 was surreal.
