My sister recently posted this to her blog:
I grew up on Long Island as a New York Yankees fan, taking after my father (and his father before that.) I first went to Yankee Stadium in 1967, right at the conclusion of Mickey Mantle’s career. I think I was at Reggie’s first game as a Yankee. [...]
I skipped work this afternoon. It’s easy to do that when you’re self-employed and none of your clients have a big emergency to make you feel guilty. Anyway, my reason? To watch opening day it Yankee Stadium 2.0.
Now, I love baseball in general, and the Yankees specifically (go ahead, say what you will, I can [...]