I took a date to twin bill in Bronx in '76, and my mom!
My Friday newspaper column has a baseball theme in general and a strong dose of the Yankee Stadium finale in particular.
That includes ESPN's and YES' plans for the evening, and the going rate for ducats on StubHub.
I also explain why Ron Darling could end up covering the ALCS and NLCS simultaneously.
Don't worry, I'm not going to bore you with my personal Yankee Stadium memories. Well, maybe a few.
I never saw the original stadium.
I attended several games in 1976, including a Sept. 12 doubleheader against the Tigers - complete game shutout by Fidrych in opener - that I attended with a date . . . and my mother! I needed the ride.
I watched Ron Guidry beat the Twins on July 4, 1985, got home at 1 a.m. and still got to see three hours of the Mets-Braves game on TV.
A month later, I was there for Tom Seaver's 300th victory and saw Phil Rizzuto get run over by a cow. And saw the brother of a friend I was sitting with pour his beer on an obnoxious 12-year-old in the row in front of us.
I covered many games in the early 1990s, and spent many a late evening in the manager's office watching Stump Merrill stare forlornly into a plate of pasta.
I took my daughters to their first major league game on May 14, 2006.
I talked to Bobby Murcer on Opening Day in 2007.
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Neil, i'm very curios about this. You wrote that Michael Kay won't call the ninth inning. Why not? Did he decline? Or did ESPN object to Jon Miller's suggestion? Cuz I remember Kay complaining on his radio show a few months back about the fact that he won't be able to call the game... So if you know anything....
Everyone missed the 45th anniversary yesterday of the last National League played at the Polo Grounds in 1963. Phillies beat the Mets 5-1. A crowd of 1752 people jammed into the bath tub shaped ballpark. I wasn't there but I did see a few games there. Even to a kid it was an old ballpark.