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Singing Along with the New York Yankees’ Playoff Santa
Posted: 28th September 2009 by Tom Schecter in MLB
It happened on Friday night, in the middle of another in a series of epic beatdowns that seem to be taking place in the new Yankee Stadium since the second half began.
For the first time since the Yankees clinched a playoff berth in Anaheim on Tuesday, the seventh inning stretch did not feature the grainy, campy 1900s stylings of Kate Smith doing "God Bless America."
I was already smiling wide. áOur ...
Growing Up in the Presence of the Last Baseball God (or, My Jeter Story)
Posted: 9th September 2009 by Tom Schecter in MLB
One day, when I'm old and shot, and some little troublemaker who looks like me is in my lap after a Sunday dinner, I'm going to take the opportunity to pass onto him the desperate, passionate, eternal bond of the Yankee fan.
I'll give him the greatest gift of all, the knowledge of history.
I'm going to tell him all the great ghost stories I know.
Babe and Gehrig. DiMaggio. Martin, Ford, and ...