Awesome! I was young Whitey Ford fan. Had his baseball card one was a rookie card. Dad had given it to me. We lost them all in move from South Philly in '66. Darn. Wonder where does card are now?
Thanks for sharing. Joe On Jul 21, 2010, at 8:23 PM, "Lou Vincent" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello boys, > > My wife and I went to N.Y. this past weekend to see our youngest daughter. > She got us tickets to see the Blue Man Group. They were like Gallager on > steroids. Unbelievable energy and controlled chaos. > > She also has a friend that works for Bank of America, the Yankees Bank, and > gets the bank’s tickets about twice a season. About 3 months ago, I gave my > daughter several weekend we could come up so her friend could to try to get > tickets for a Saturday game. > > Anyway, we got to see the Yankees play ( well get their butts kicked ), by > Tampa Bay. But I did not know this was also Old Timer’s weekend. I got to > see some Yankee greats…..Whitey Ford#19 in picture, Larsen #18 in picture, > Bucky Dent, Goose, Reg-gie, Chambliss, Cecil Fielder, Mick the quick Rivers, > Nettles, David Cone, Moose Skowron, Ralph Terry, Mel Stottlemyre, Barfield, > ……………Approx. 40 players in all. Some of them played in a 2 inning game. > Goose pitched, Guidry pitched & so did Al Downing………………Cone played 3rd base. > > My daughter said, I’m not sure where these seats are but I was told they were > good seats. > Row 2 on the 2nd base side at the tarp. We sat down and some people came and > said, excuse me you are in our seats. I said, I’m sorry but this tick > says 2nd row? He said, there was not a 1st row here, so the 2nd row was > actually on the wall. WOW !!!!!!!!!!! > > These seats were leather with thick leather backs. A girl came by and gave > us a menu and told us to text her if she could bring us anything, and did we > know about the buffet? Of course we did not. She said, go down this walkway > into the glass doors, they quit serving in the 7th inning. They had snow > crab legs, jumbo, jumbo shrimp, fish cooking on the spot, roast beef, sushi, > etc………………Unbelievable for the wealthy. > > When leaving to go back to our seats, there was a wall of “stuff” for > free..Cracker Jacks, > bags of peanuts, bags of all kinds of candies………. Then there were plastic > trash cans filled with Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Lemonade, water etc……………… > > What a weekend………………….Enjoy a couple of pictures, it was especially great to > see #49, Guidry, on the Yankee mound again. > > Your baseball buddy, Lou > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NOMBL" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nombl?hl=en. > <P1060241.JPG> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NOMBL" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nombl?hl=en.
