Category: Yankee Fan Memories
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Flag Day (2024 World Series Game 3)
Well, the Yankees often provide us thrills on the field, but this is about how they provided me and 80-ish other folks a thrill that was literally on the field. I was one of the flag handlers for the National Anthem on the field yesterday. I don’t know when the “giant flag in the outfield”…
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2019 ALCS Games 4 and 5: Tale of Two Nights
I’m writing this in the car on the way back to Massachusetts after the Yankees slayed the dragon known as Justin Verlander. It’s 2:30 in the morning, and this dark drive would be very different if they had lost the game. We did this drive the night Joe Torre’s career as a Yankee ended, with…
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Nine Things About the Yankees 2018 Home Opener
I couldn’t think of one single thematic thread to tie up the story of the 2018 home opener, so I’m going to fall back on that baseball blog trope of a nine-element list. Nine Things About the 2018 Home Opener: 1. SNOW & RAIN This isn’t the first time we’ve had snow for the home…
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2017 ALCS Games 3-4-5 at Yankee Stadium: Impressions
Writing this in the car on the way back to Boston after three wins in a row at Yankee Stadium. Three raucous, amazing wins. I feel like we’re watching the “baby bombers” grow up before our eyes. At the end of September, I don’t think they were a better team than Cleveland or Houston. After…
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A Series of Miracles (2017 ALDS Games 3 and 4)
It struck me as we were walking from the parking lot to the Stadium today, for the second night in a row, that most successful postseason runs appear, in hindsight, to be a string of miracles. Sometimes they seem to be a series of small miracles, other times one or two big miracles come in…
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The 2017 AL Wild Card Game
It was very freeing, somehow, to go into a winner-take-all postseason game with low expectations. Or maybe no expectations would be a better way to put it? We were expecting a rebuilding year. We weren’t expecting Aaron Judge. We weren’t expecting Brett Gardner to have a career high in home runs. We got excited about…
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A Fraction of the Amazing Stuff I Learned at #SABR47
This year’s SABR convention was in New York, which was awesome for me, given how many of my research interests are New York-centric. It meant that I didn’t have to “pick out” all the Yankees-related topics to go see because there were so many. (Unrelated but cool: There were also so many women presenting and…
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Here Comes the Judge
I’ve been pressed for time lately (okay, for the past three years thanks to my own book deadlines plus SABR deadlines) so I haven’t blogged about all the fantastic baseball things I’ve experienced. Just a few of them. One I did have time for was seeing the debut last year of Aaron Judge and Tyler…
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Double Historic Debut for Austin and Judge
It’s a cliche because it’s true. When you go to the ballpark, you never know if you’ll see something historic, something that’s never been done before. Last night was “out with the old,” and the retirement of Alex Rodriguez. Today was “in with the new.” In our latest chapter of “the metaphors write themselves” the…
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An Angelic Weekend at the Big Ballpark in the Bronx
Thank you, Yankees, for another lovely weekend at the ballpark. Now that I’m not actively covering the Yankees or MLB as a member of the media, I get to be “just a fan.” This means I get to do fun stuff like enjoy the perks of being a season ticket holder at Yankee Stadium for…