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Michael Hoffman
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Mon, 01/24/11 10:29 AM
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Ran away?Who ran away. I make it to several games a year at the Polo Grounds.
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the ancient mariner
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Mon, 01/24/11 11:40 AM
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Michael---one unique thing about the Polo Grounds ----
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At Ebbets Field sitting in the front row of the center field bleachers we could talk to Duke Snider. He would throw us a ball once in a while until management started charging him for them.
But----if you sat in the first row in Center Field at the Polo Grounds you couldn't see home plate without binoculars and 20-20 vision. Willie Mays was 100 feet from us--------no talking to him without a bull horn..
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Michael Hoffman
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Mon, 01/24/11 12:22 PM
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Yep, the center field wall was a bit of a hike away from the plate. But I never sat in the bleachers. Us plutocrats sat behind the dugouts.
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Mon, 01/24/11 12:31 PM
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Michael Hoffman
Yep, the center field wall was a bit of a hike away from the plate. But I never sat in the bleachers. Us plutocrats sat behind the dugouts.
Exchanging pleasantries with John McGraw?
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Michael Hoffman
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Mon, 01/24/11 12:47 PM
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Nope. Bill Terry. I am a curmudgeon, but one doesn't have to be old to be one, and John McGraw was just a tad before my time.
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the ancient mariner
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Mon, 01/24/11 3:08 PM
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Voss must be older than I am if he remembers McGraw.
Bill Terry was leading the Giants to the pennant---a reporter asked if the Giants coming 3 game series with the Dodgers conserned him. Terry made this remark-----The Dodgers? Are they still in the league? The Boys from Brooklyn came into the Polo Grounds and swept the 3 games. The Giants did not win the pennant and Terry was fired.
Terry has the honor of being the last 400 hitter in the NL, so he wasn't all bad.
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Michael Hoffman
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Mon, 01/24/11 3:17 PM
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He batted .401 in 1930.
Line-Up for Yesterday
T is for Terry
The Giant from Memphis
Whose .400 average
You can't overemphis.
— Ogden Nash
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Mon, 01/24/11 5:46 PM
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the ancient mariner
Voss must be older than I am if he remembers McGraw.
He just looks older 
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the ancient mariner
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Re:Yankee Fans and Haters
Tue, 01/25/11 7:53 PM
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If Brother Voss looks older he is in very bad shape. Joe did you
have your good glasses on? Those CVS ones distort, you know.
Michael, I love Ogden Nash and his Classical Poetry. He is compared with the Bard hmself in my book. Not Lee The Bard, the one from Avon.
A common denominator------the Yankees.
Michael hated the Dodgers and Yankees
I hated the Giants (not a lot) and Yankees.
The Rebs hated the carpetbaggers and the Yankees.
It is a foregone conclusion ---everyone hates the Yankees.
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