My Life as a Yankee

This is dedicated to the Yankee fans in Dunkerton.

Yes I'm a Yankee fan................

I saw Thurmon Munson two weeks before he rapped his airplane up! I shook Louis Tiant's hand while he held his Cuban Cigar in the other hand, I got an autograph from George Stienbrenner when I had my Yankee helmet on and he treated me like a son, while he told my best friend who had a twin cap on to get away from him. I saw Willy Randolph have two Opposite field homeruns in one game. I saw Ron Guidry blank the Twins one night and steal a base the next night when Billy Martin used him as a pinch runner. I watched Reggie Jackson throw a guy out from right field at the bottom of the inning then hit a 400 foot homer at the top of the next.

I died when Billy Martin died, I died when Mickey Mantle died, I died when Thurmon Munson died. I Cried the Monday night of Munsons funeral when ABC just had to show the Yankees on the Monday Night Game of The Week and Bobby Mercer hit a homer late in the game to win it and sat down on the bench and cried like a baby ver the death of his friend.

I won with Billy and I lost with Billy. I was there when they hired Bob Lemon and I watched as he got them to the World Series. I lost with Ralph, I lost with Bucky, I lost with Lou, and I'm proud to say I won with Joe.

I watched the night Reggie hit three homers, I watched that day Bucky hit that homer over the Monster, Iwatched as Chamblis won the ALCS with a walk off homer, I cry when they show Lou G on video claim to be "the luckiest man alive.

I was a Yankee fan before George Will proclaimed baseball to be America's game, and the yuppies decided to learn the history of the game and look down their nose at you if you didn't remember Hack Wilson's batting average.

I am a Yankee fan and am proud to live in a country where you can "buy" a team This isn't the USSR. Everyone is not equal and I am not ashamed to say they shouldn't be. If you want fair go to the one in your county. How much money do the Yankee's bring into the third world teams pockets.

This is no brag just fact, I am a Yankee fan and I will not apologize to any one for that.