Go Yanks and Bush indeed.
If you don't mind me asking, how do you print a book off the web. I too would like to read that Miniter book.
It was a link and it was four free chapters. I shall get you the link. It is a tease though we may just as well break down and buy the book!
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Major League Yankees lover
BY PETER KADUSHIN, BILL GALLO and LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
Helen Beller is truly a Yankees fan for the ages.
The great-great-grandma from Manhattan's upper West Side has been rootin' for the Bronx Bombers all her life, which began in 1903, the same year the Yanks were born as the Highlanders.
Last night she saw her first game at the stadium in more than a half-century - a treat provided by her grandson.
But then Beller got an unexpected treat, thanks to Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman.
She got to meet her favorite player, Derek Jeter, and for a moment she seemed less like a 103-year-old woman and more like a starstruck young fan.
"You're so goddamned handsome," she blurted out to the All-Star shortstop, as they posed for a photo.
Jeter looked around for help, then simply replied, "Thank you."
For a second pose, Beller put her arm around the grinning Jeter and whispered, "No one deserves to be that good looking."
On the way to the Bronx, Beller sheepishly showed off a pink T-shirt with Jeter's name on the back. She said she carried it for good luck.
"I like his behavior," she shrugged. "He's a gentleman."
The other Yankees? "Oh, they're all wonderful," she said, giving little hint at what was to follow.
"They mean well, but they're overpaid."
Beller said she used to go to Yankee games with her daughter, but stopped after her daughter died.
Her grandson, Donald Pitofsky, 49, a civil litigation lawyer, said Beller still watches every game broadcast on television.
"If I don't watch a particular game with her, she calls me after the last out and we talk about it. That goes for the West Coast games, too. She just stays up late."
At the stadium, Beller sat in a field level box on the first base side with Pitofsky; his wife, Mary Ann, and their son Lee, 15, one of Beller's three great-great-grandchildren.
What was her favorite Yankee moment?
Aaron Boone's 11th-inning homer against the Red Sox to win the 2003 American League pennant for the Yanks.
Later, Beller was asked why she didn't seem impressed by Babe Ruth, the legendary home run hero.
"Well," she explained, "Babe Ruth never knew me, but Derek Jeter does."