Posted on 09/23/2015 8:34:26 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Can I join? Can, I, can I?
Would you like your pizza cut in to four pieces or eight? I’m not very hungry, make it four
You bet! I hope it’s more boon than burden! :)
Please add me to your list, thanks!
Oh my, Yogi. He was the genuine article, wasn’t he? In spite of his Yankee uniform:) I was telling my son today there was a time when America was full of men like this. Not with his unique talent of course, but forward looking optimists, with a core of strength and decency. They were in my family, my neighbors families, my friends families. They were regular American guys.
For a time in the 70’s I lived at the end of Boylston St. where I could open the window in the evenings and hear C-c-crack! when someone hit a line drive...hear the fans roar approval or otherwise. Or I could walk over with a couple of friends and, for just a few bucks, drink cold beer and eat hotdogs. Great years...Yaz was king. We had Rico Petrocelli, Luis Tiant, Carlton Fisk. Heartbreak was ever-present of course, because...the Green Monster, or the curse of Babe, or ....
Yogi was amazing. A gift from God, and that is not hyperbole.
You’ve been added to the ping list SE Mom. Thank you. :)
Whitey Ford turns 87 today.
Ford is a ten-time MLB All-Star and six-time World Series champion. Ford won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1961. He led the American League in wins three times and in earned run average twice. The Yankees retired Ford's uniform number in his honor.
In the wake of Yogi Berra's 2015 death, George Vecsey writing in the New York Times, suggested that Ford is now "The Greatest Living Yankee."
When it's Whitey's turn to pitch, Yogi will be the catcher.
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