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 ....