"Joe P." trashupdebatetrash.org> wrote in message
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>> "Joe P." trashupdebatetrash.org> wrote in message
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>>> "HPLeft" hpnospam.com> wrote in
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>>>> "Chuck P. Adams . The Voice of the Tundra!!!"
>>>>
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>>>>> The Yanks were lucky to draw 10k a game in the mid 80's , you fags
>>>>> were the ones rooting for the mets you bandwagon losers.
>>>>
>>>> Excuse me, but I take pride in having attending the first Bat Day
>>>> in 1965 (and Yankees lost both games), and having survived Horace
>>>> Clark, Celerino Sanchez, and Jerry Kenney. I even attended the
>>>> game when the Yankee pitching staff was so battered, they sent
>>>> Rocky Colavito in to pitch.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I remember that game, I saw it on TV. He didn't do too bad, IIRC.
>>>
>>> I was at Micky Mantle Day. :)
>>
>> Do you have the record? :)
>> MJ
>>
>
> If you mean "program", I used to. It was a "Game of the Week" and PeeWee
> Reese and Dizzy Dean were the announcers, and I got their autographs
> along with Scooter's and Jerry Coleman's. Unfortunately, my mother threw
> it out a decade or two later. :(
>
> Joe P.
We may be talking about two different days? June 8, 1969, when Mickey
retired, a record (the kind you play) was given away. It was 45 RPM size but
you played it at 33 1/3 like an album. I didn't attend but a kid in the
neighborhood went and brought me the record. I still have it. :)
MJ