Been hearing a lot of talk a lot of places about a lot of fathers who were figuring out ways to keep their kids out of school Thursday and sneak them to Yankee Stadium for Opening Day.
And across the years, how many millions of fathers have intercepted their kids on the way to the breakfast table, or to the bus stop, and handed them two priceless gifts: a ticket to Opening Day, and the opportunity to spend a Ferris Bueller-like day driving or walking or training to a ballpark with Dad ?Yankees fans soak in the team’s 2023 Opening Day victory.For me, that was 40 years ago this Wednesday, April 5, 1983.
Now he would be coming back and he would face the Phillies, destined to win the NL pennant, backed by a Mets team destined to lose 94 games. Didn’t matter. Pop and I had breakfast at the Lantern Diner, we cruised in to Shea, we parked in his old neighborhood in Corona, in front of an old neighbor’s house, and hoofed it the rest of the way.
not going to the bronx.
Great article Mike. LGM!
Sad life if that true. Be bolder.