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Lil
Still A Babe
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 Posted - April 20 2003 : 2:44:10 PM
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1996 NY Yankees - Atlanta Braves
Do you remember....
Yanks down first two games  (All these fair weathered)
Braves fans are saying "Yeah, we're gonna win!" Yanks head
south greeted by banners everywhere - YANKEES GO HOME...
(Like a New Yorker) silently thinking, com'on guys don't let
us down....remembering what Yogi says...
I could not have asked for a better ending...Yanks take three
in Atlanta, travel home greeted by their fans. Yanks win game 6.
Win Series!!!!!!
Die hard Yankee Fan
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DINK
Still A Babe
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Posted - April 20 2003 : 2:49:01 PM
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1999 New York Yankees - Atlanta Braves
Who was to know that the last three games at Atlanta
Fulton County Stadium before being torn down would
be lose, lose, lose....
Who was to know that the first World Series played at
the Braves new stadium (Turner Field) would be SWEEP!
at the hand of the YANKEES!
General Sherman would be proud.
SWEEP!!!! You gotta love it...
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Edited by - DINK on April 20 2003 6:22:17 PM |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 20 2003 : 9:12:51 PM
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Lil, Dink,
Same here once a Yankee Fan Always a Yankee fan !
Bean - who still has a foul ball pitched by Jim Bouton on a hot August night in 1966 or 67 against the Baltimore Orieoles at a twi-night double header. |
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Lil
Still A Babe
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Posted - April 21 2003 : 8:44:54 PM
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Cool Bean!
I met Clete Boyer in 1998, (he lives in Atlanta)
while shopping at Sam's club. He had his Yankee
hat, shirt, and World Series ring on. I just
started talking to him...he took my address and
mailed me an autographed picture. He asked me
what I thought of Jeter...then patted himself on
the back saying " I coached him in the minors ".
Doc,Ryan,Mike, and I went to a game last summer.
It was great being there again.
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 21 2003 : 11:39:54 PM
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Lillian,
About 10 years ago I ran in to Joe Peppitone in a bar on Long Island at about 3AM...I walked up to him and said I know you # 25...you were one of my idols as a kid...and I met Phil Linz again about 2 years ago, I originaly met him and Al Downing when they spoke at one of the Little Leauge award cermonies at the VFW in Valley Stream back in the mid 60's...
My favorite infield of all time was Clete Boyer # 6 on 3rd base, Tony Kubek # 10 at SS, Bobby Richardson # 1 at 2nd base and Bill Moose Skaron # 1 I think at first base and # 32 Elston Howard catching, in the out field in right field it was Roger Maris # 9, Mantle # 7 in Center, and either Tom Tresh # 15 or Hector Lopez # 11 in Left Field...Johnnie Blanchard, Bobby Murcer, Roy White, some other favorites from that era and # 8 Yogi...pitchers are another story line.
Bean - who remembers the board game Challange the Yankees and playing it in my garage with Vince and Foch until Richie and Ronnie came up with Stratomatic Baseball. |
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richfed
Into the 60's
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Posted - April 22 2003 : 07:43:38 AM
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Actually - and that is my favorite all-time Yankees team - it was Yogi in left field, at least in 1961. I must've watched every single game that WPIX - Channel 11 in NYC - televised that summer. All I can remember doing is swimming in my backyard pool & watching those fantastic Yankees. What a year!
But, I must confess, I watched them only because National League baseball disappeared with the Dodgers/Giants exodus to California.
My father taught me to love the Brooklyn Dodgers - they were ingrained in me from birth - though he hated them after the move & went on to cheer on the Mets when they first came into being in '62 [of course, Gil Hodges & Duke Snider made that transition easy for him! - I'm glad they gave him a WS Championship, in '69, just before he died].
So, though I root for the Yanks still [EXCEPT when they meet in the World Series] I am a Dodgers fan, first & foremost. I actually hated the "damn" Yankees of Reggie Jackson in '77 and '78. Gee, I wonder why? Ah, but sweet revenge in 1981! |
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Lil
Still A Babe
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Posted - April 22 2003 : 8:26:02 PM
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Richie,
Yanks manager@the time Bob Lemmon. All he did was
sit in the dugout...I'm thinking Dodgers 4 games
to 2 huh?
Lil- |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 23 2003 : 12:02:58 AM
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| The Ralph Houk era was my favorite YANKEE years and he was my favorite manager, but I did like Billy Martin's spunk ! |
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Lil
Still A Babe
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Posted - April 23 2003 : 8:31:14 PM
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Bean-
Must see video's:
1) NEW YORK YANKEES THE MOVIE released 1987
2) NEW YORK YANKEES THE SEASON OF THEIR LIVES
1998
I'm waiting for your pitching storyline... |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 23 2003 : 8:42:19 PM
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Lil -
To get it started besides loving the legendary # 16 Whitey Ford, there were other favorite pitchers like Jim Bouton # 54 I believe who had a pitching style over the top of his head where he would knock is cap off after almost every pitch ! Also # 39 who was Steve Hamilton, and the great Al Downing whose # I can't remember.
Bean
Anyone know what ever hapenned to old # 15 Utility Man Tom Tresh ? His name was always one of my favorite names in baseball. My real baseball idol is the ONE & ONLY JIMMY PEARSAL who never played for the Yankee's though, I think he was with the Washington Senators and also with the Mets for a short time before they took him away to where " Life is beautiful all the time..." They're coming to take me away ha ha, ho ho he he "
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Lil
Still A Babe
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Posted - April 24 2003 : 9:55:52 PM
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Memorable Pitcher - Game
#49 Ron Guidry (Louisiana Lightning)
Yankees-Angels
Strikesout ( 18 )
June 1978
I remember watching Guidry's strikeout game. I'll
never forget when Joe Rudi struck out for the 3rd
time..dropped his bat..and started walking towards
the mound.
It was a tense moment at the stadium everyone was
thinking fight. But Joe had something else in mind.
He walked halfway to the mound, took off his hat,
and bowed to Guidry. Guess it was his way of telling
him he was "king of the hill" that day. What a great
Yankee moment!
1978 Cy Young Award 25-3
Five straight Gold Glove Awards.
btw ( I read this somewhere ) Guidry was an amateur
drummer who once played with the Beach Boys during
a postgame concert.
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richfed
Into the 60's
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Posted - April 25 2003 : 05:49:15 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Lil
Richie,
Yanks manager@the time Bob Lemmon. All he did was
sit in the dugout...I'm thinking Dodgers 4 games
to 2 huh?
Lil-
Yep!
In one of the games, the Dodgers' Pedro Guerrero hit a homer to win a 2-1 game [I think]. I was listening to the game on the radio as I was driving ... The homer was hit & I let out a big WHOOPIE, my hands went up in the air, and I almost crashed ... that was darn near close to the end of my life right there! |
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Ronnie
Still A Babe
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Posted - May 09 2003 : 8:46:20 PM
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| Just a bit of trivia info concerning Joe Pepitone. Within a week of moving to North Merrick (Long Island) in August 1990, I ran into Joe at the neighborhood deli across the street from my house. Turns out he live in a modest home on Park Avenue, North Merrick 2 blocks from my house. He moved out about 5 years later. He usually had that real NY Italian look, thick black (dyed??) hair combed straight back, black leather jacket, black pants driving in his black caddy! |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - May 11 2003 : 8:18:58 PM
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Yeah Ronald when I met him it was about 2 or 3 years later in a Farmingdale Strip club at abut 3 AM, I think he told me he lived right nearby in Melville, Farmingdale, or Masapequa so that must be where he moved to after Merrick, but he still had the same look you described...he should have tried out for a part on the Soprano's, definitley could have made it ! Bean
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