Luke The Drifter said:
missinAggieland said:
If you want random, and not obscure, I am a Yankees fan. Only because growing up in Louisiana, Ron Guidry came into my mom's vet clinic regularly with his dogs. He usually came in on Saturdays so I was often the one taking names and pulling charts.
Not my #1 MLB team, but still a fan after all of these years
I am a Yankees fan because of my dad. He grew up on the farm in west Texas when there was no baseball west of St. Louis. The Yanks with DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, Ford, etc. we winning a lot and about the only teams he could get on the radio. When I was a kid in the 70s, both the Astros and Rangers were terrible while the Yanks with Guidry, Jackson, Munson, etc. were winning World Series again. Then when my son came along and started following baseball, the Yankees era of Jeter, Williams, Rivera, and Torre was in full force.
I do love the Astros and Rangers, but the Yankees were my first baseball love.
My father has stories of traveling from New Jersey to the Bronx (subway and all) with same age friends when he was around 8-10-years-old in the late 40's early 50's when the Yankees had won a string of World Series championships.
(Different times indeed, i.e., children's independence).
Mom's side was Italian immigrants who came through Ellis Island, started life in New York City, and latched onto the Yankees as their team. They would often give me all sorts of Yankee memorabilia. My memories are of all the men I admired standing around watching games and me, looking up, wanting to be amongst them. Reggie Jackson was the big name then. If the game wasn't going well my grandfather would up and leave to go and sit in his car and listen on the radio. I think he'd perfectly understand the times I turn off an Aggie game and follow the TexAgs game thread instead.
I haven't watched professional sports in a long time aside from keeping up with who won what championship, so I can carry on a conversation if need be. However, every now and then if the Yankees are on I might just sit down and watch. I suppose it's more about family tradition/memories than anything else.
Side story: Both my parents fell in love with Aggie baseball after attending a game versus the horns in either '95 or '96. Afterwards my mother told me she hadn't been to a baseball game since watching the Brooklyn Dodgers.
