"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
07/18/2019 at 13:53 • Filed to: None
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
07/18/2019 at 13:53 • Filed to: None | 2
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I don’t follow baseball at all, and I’m definitely not a Yankees fan, but this is a really good look back at a magical game. The Yogi Berra connection really sells it.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Just Jeepin'
07/18/2019 at 14:27 |
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Don Larson, who threw a perfect game in the 1956 WS, threw out the opening pitch. Spooky stuff. That, along with David Wells throwing a perfect game the year before was great. Especially since both feats were accomplished by the two guys in the pitching rotation who clearly weren’t injecting each other with steroids.
I watched Cone pitch a shutout against the Orioles at Yankee Stadium the previous year. Watched the game with my great uncle before he passed away. Lotta memories in the old Yankee Stadium. I hate the Yankees for tearing it down. I was thankfully able to see one last game there on the last weekend it was open. Took the subway to the game with my dad, brother and cousins, then took a gypsy cab back to Penn Station. For the younger millennials, gypsy cabs were the original Ubers. Instead of a corolla, you got a crown vic with a million miles on it.
Good times. Now I’m craving a hot dog.
Thomas Donohue
> Just Jeepin'
07/18/2019 at 14:38 |
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So many weird coincidences that day....but listening to the commentary of the first pitch is my favorite. It was already a special afternoon for Yankee fans....Yogi Berra Day with Don Larsen throwing out the ceremonial first pitch to Yogi.
And then Bobby Murcer, in what is probably the greatest foreshadowing of all time : “Perfect.....absolute l y perfect! It’s been a perfect day today.... ”
Looking back, I think Coney’s fate was sealed right there, before he even threw his own first pitch.