I would be the last person on FR to insult the Yankees, as watching them kick sniveling Red Sox ass is one of my great joys in life. The ‘78 playoff game is my favorite childhood memory. And for the past three seasons I have been instructing my LL teams to watch Rivera, because they won’t ever see another like him. Mo Jr. graduated from Iona Prep, where two of my brothers went. At Fordham Prep, we may not have had Mo’s kid, but we did have Frankie Frisch (”The Fordham Flash”), Vin Sculley, and George Stirnweiss. BTW, we also had John L. Lahey ‘64 - President of Quinnipiac University. Go Rams!
I suspect that I have a few years on you (if 1978 was in your childhood), enough to have grown up with Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford being my heroes, but I also attended and graduated a Jebbie prep school, Fairfield Prep (mid-1960s) in Fairfield, CT. I am amazed that Mariano, as a Pentecostal minister, sent his son to a Jebbie prep school, although I reasonably suspect that they are not as conservative and Catholic as they were back when the Jebbies were actually Catholic. In my time, Bill Buckley debated Fr. Robert Drinan, SJ, (later the ultra-leftist pro-abort Congresscritter from Taxachusetts who was personally ordered to his face to leave Congress by JP II) before the student bodies of Fairfield Prep and Fairfield University at the gymnasium which they shared. Bill kicked his ass to the delight of the students as well. The Jebbies turned their backs on Drinan when he was introduced and they applauded Bill Buckley with wild abandon.