T-Rock's Take on the Giants

I know it's a football blog, and we'll get to the game in a bit. But since they did play football at Yankee Stadium for a few decades, I thought I'd share this article from today's paper along with some other John Mara Yankee Stadium memories that didn't make it into print.

The first is a memory he shared of sitting in the locker room, he and his sibling atop these large trunks used for hauling equipment and other things, and listening to stories told by the locker room attendants named Big Pete and Little Pete Sheehy. They worked for both the Yankees and the Giants.

"They’d regale us with stories of Ruth and Gehrig, this is where their locker was, Babe came in one day after a long night on the town and we took him back here," Mara said. "They were great stories. It was good stuff."

The other memory wasn't John's but his father's Wellington, and passed down.

"My father told of the day in probably 1922 or 23, his father taking him and his brother over to see the new ballpark being built in the Bronx and then they drove up north to see the new golf course being built in Mamaroneck, which was Winged Foot, on the same day."

That's not a bad way to spend an afternoon.