Yep...My grandfather was a huge Yankees fan....Back in the 50's 60's I go over to his house here in West Tn. and he'd have the Yankees on the radio.....I've been a Cards fan all my life and they were always on here too.
My Dad is STILL a huge Yankees fan. He's lived in TN all his life and he watches every game he can on TV. He had 5 bothers, (Only 2 now
) but 4 of them are/were just as big a Yankees fan as he. The last year of the old Yankee stadium my sister got them a bunch of tickets for one of the final regular season games. My cousin and I were fortunate enuff to tag along. They rented a big passenger van and drove up from E TN. I drove over to Hagerstown and they picked me up along the way. Before the game we went to Mickey Mantle's restaurant right by Central Park. The restaurant was like a freakin' museum of the Bronx bombers of old. I saw two of my uncles walk by a signed original jersey of Mantle's in a frame and they stopped to look at it and they both started to cry! I guess my eyes got a little watery seeing that as well. That's just how deep a feeling they had for those old teams. I was a Yankees fan when I was very young - because of my Dad, of course - and those were amazing years as well - the Billy Martin years and Bucky Dent hitting that Home Run over the big Green Monster and Chambliss' ALCS series clinching HR and on and on. I remember crying when the national news reported Thurman Munson's death in that plane crash. But I guess I grew out of that and became a Braves fan partly because my teenage friends in Memphis were Braves fans and also because all their games were on TBS. Those cable broadcasts were great to watch. I loved watching Harry Carey as well. I guess my Braves fan fate was sealed when I went to Ga Tech for grad school and attended so many games in 89 and 90. They were terrible, but we had a blast at the games - cheap tix and even cheap beer. Right after I graduated with my masters, I started working in DC. The Braves picked up Deon Sanders, the crowd chopped for him on his first night, and the rest was history. I came to hate, HATE, the Yankees when they ran off 8 STRAIGHT World Series games vs the Braves. That pretty much put the Braves teams to rest for a long, long while. Living in Merryland all these years has also made me a bit of an O's fan. Too bad the Orioles are coming up a little short this year. Jeez, their owner really sux ass. OK, /rant over.
