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To: BluesDuke
Great stuff, thanks....

The image of Bowie Kuhn sitting in the seats at Yankee standium during the WS, in just a suit, while it was snowing, and the temperature was in the 20's...is a classic....almost as good as the ones of all the apartment buildings burning from the riots around the stadium in the 70's...

I grew up in the Bronx, about 2 miles from the ballpark, and used to go all the time as a kid...all those day games.....right field bleachers were awesome...people forget before the renovation that the r.f. porch was only 296 feet, and that the seats were LEVEL with the field..the railing was only three feet high, and is was a mesh....so you'd sit there and the r.f'er....Skowron, Berra, would be ten feet infront of you, and he'd talk to you all during the game......in those days, you could get a ticket for 50 cents with your G.O. card and it was a great way to spend an afternon, and then, there were the double headers......

53 posted on 12/29/2001 12:15:23 AM PST by ken5050
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To: ken5050
I remember being able to watch a game at Yankee Stadium on the far end of the number 4 platform at the 161st St. station, before they remodeled the right field back wall. I watched Roger Maris still able to cover a decent right field even after the injuries the Yankees didn't want to talk about had cut into his longball power.
56 posted on 12/29/2001 12:15:31 AM PST by BluesDuke
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