The crowd at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, July 17. Photo: dotCANTON
I took to the road and rails Saturday, July 17, for a trip to Yankee Stadium. When I purchased my ticket a couple of months ago, I knew it was a late-afternoon game, but I had no idea it was Old-Timers’ Day. In fact, I didn’t find out it was Old-Timers’ Day until a couple of weeks ago. I cheered my good fortune without a clue, of course, that July 17 would come at the end of an emotional week for Yankee fans.
If you have read about me on, appropriately, the “About” page at dotCANTON.com, you know that as a sports writer for the New York Post I covered the Yankees for a short time in 1986 and 1987 and had to deal with owner George Steinbrenner. He was fair to me from the beginning, but I’ll never forget how The Boss’ antics taught me to hold my breath whenever the phone would ring in my New Jersey apartment (remember, we didn’t have caller ID back then). Continue reading Road Trip: The Bronx
