Leland and Py- Our age is beginning to show. We have become those babbling old guys who sit around talking about the good old days before color TV and air conditioning. Wait a sec- that IS us. So Yankee Stadium - I swear Billy Crystal stole my experience and used it in City Slickers. I was 7 yrs old, a Sunday afternoon, double header against the White Sox. I remember the shock of that green field as I came out of the tunnel. I sat with my granfather on the 3rd base side. Yanks took the 1st game 1-0 in a classic pitching battle. Second game was something like 5 or 6 to 3 Yanks. Mickey hit one out. It was perfect. Mike E ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Leland Torrance <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:21:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [BP] Pantheon of the Gods > Michael, > Yep. We got an all north east super duper bowl. Your story of Yakki stadium reminds me of my first Madison Square Garden pro hockey game. Hearing the roar of the crowd, then all the lights, a coliseum! Gump Worsly in the nets against Eddie Giackomin. Two of the greatest goalies, no masks, no helmets. Gump made a save with his face against, I think, Bobbie Hull, late in the second period, and returned to play in the third. Talk about Rome, blood all over the ice. I think they stitched him up with boot laces. > You can’t see the game in Argentina? No satellite dish under a tin roof somewhere? > Best, > Leland > > > From: plz practice conservation of histo presto eye blinks [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:07 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [BP] Pantheon of the Gods > > > My first professional football game I ever attended was > in New York; I was 7 > . I was with my dad and my uncles and all of their white and blue collar male friends who my brother and I would call "uncle" because thats the way it was; > it was never Mr. Jones ; it was always uncle Bob or Uncle art. > We went to games at Yankee stadium way up in the Bronx; which we went to by subway after parking the car in mid town Manhattan. > Yankee stadium to this 7 yr. old was the pantheon of the Gods; grotty dirty and filled with the stink of hot dog and cigar smoke and the swill of cheap beer > but it was the house that Ruth built; and its pitch was the same hallowed earth my baseball gods played on ; Stengle Ford, Mantle, Maris,Berra,) which to me was made of the stuff dreams were made of > Some times the baseball would still be going on and they would share the field every other week other times we would go to the polo grounds (but the uncles didn't like that) > On cold Sunday afternoons we would pile into the coveted Giant seating sections filled as if by magic with my neighborhood uncles and cheer the Giants to victory. > This little section of Yankee stadium was everybody that I knew. > Some were the fathers of my best school chums > Once I remember Nixon coming over and shaking hands; > and Marylyn Monroe with Norman Mailer passing by; > there were all sorts of characters; the beer guy the hot dog vender > but what I liked was all the uncles; commuting uncles who were week end warriors gladiators trying to blow off a little steam who on Sunday afternoons would drink a little beer and become kids again roaring from their stadium coats and camel hair jackets talking world War two stories, listening to the game on transmitters > and roaring the Giants to victory as if there was no tomorrow > . > Charlie Connerly (52-60)was the quarter back then ; > He was a God so was Alex Webster and so many others > they were all Gods to this 7 year old > and New York was Rome if not the glittering paradise of American art and culture; > > Here was the Village, the upper east side, MOMA, and central park, > the museums of natural history, the planetarium, Jackie gleason and Ed Sullivan , Steve Allen;Sinatra,the mob and the New York times. All side by side > all roaring from these hallowed seats in the pantheon of the Gods > . In 1958 The Giants were playing Baltimore and Johnny Unitas was the quarterback it was in the snow; and it was the last game of the season when Baltimore made a comeback in overtime and won ... as kids. we didn't really care as it was such a great game; and we had yelled ourselves hoarse as it was all the excitement we could bear. > To night; I roared again from my coveted seat in the living room; > I roared again as if I was 7 .. > . I roared with pleasure at the Giants comeback > and the seesaw battle of both teams fortunes > > I watched the Giants comeback and win > ......WIN in 4 dig of bitter cold temperatures > WIN ... when they were expected NOT to WIN > WIN in bitter cold Greenbay > by a field goal kicker who seemed .... could never WIN > but WIN he did > > Once again I rose from my seat ;(my mythical stadium chair ) > and while scarring the cat and awakening the house hold > did a victory lap around the room yelling hoarsely with all those uncles > now long gone ;cheering once again > in the pantheon of the Gods. PY ... Go Giants. > > Ps Sadly I will be in Argentina for superbowl; > hopefully maybe; get it on short wave or at the cantina that is two hours away whose radio whirrs ... but try I must. > > > > ************** > Start the year off right. 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