Sunday, March 23, 2008

Yankees-Pirates, bottom of third

The older I get, the fewer experiences I share with the masses.
Folks, I grew up when the Yankees were a laughing stock. One year, they had two pitchers named Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich who engineered a trade -- of their own wives and families!
How bad were they? I remember one season, their much-maligned second baseman, Horace Clarke, broke up three no-hitters in the ninth inning.
We always enjoyed listening to Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto broadcasting the games. He made a name for himself in entertainment circles doing the voice-over for Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light."
Yeah, as far as I was concerned as a kid, the years 1965-75 were glory years for baseball, in part because the Yankees were terrible.
It's been a long three decades since.
Karstens started the Yankees' exhibition at Virginia Tech early in the week, allowing two hits in four innings of an 11-0 victory.
Jack Wilson singles up the middle with two outs.
Jason Bay grounds to Cody Ransom at third to end the mini-threat.

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