True Yankees!

I was listening to Ed Randalls talking baseball on Sunday morning while I was making the wife breakfast and he was interviewing Dave Winfield. I was thinking about that and Bobby Murcer when I read AJ's comment about his memories of the All Star game. You know one of the most important parts of rooting for a team is to have guys that you can call your own. Born and bred players or even guys who get traded to your team that become such an intregal part of it that you value them forever as a "True"
Yankee or Phillie or Red or Red Sox.

Some stars can play on your team for ten years and never be a "True Yankee." I look at Dave Winfield and Reggie Jackson and A-Rod and Jason Giambi like that. Just as AJ doesn't consider Pete Rose a "True" Phillie even though he had a lot to do with their last championship. So a quick list of some of these true/fake Yankees.

True Yankees
Bobby Murcer
Roy White
Horace Clarke
Bernie Williams
Paul O'Neil
Derek Jeter
Mariano Rivera
Andy Pettitte
Don Mattingly
Thurman Munson
Craig Nettles
Fritz Peterson
Stan Banshen
Mickey Rivers

Not Real Yankees
Reggie Jackson
Dave Winfield
Ken Griffey Sr
A-Rod
Mike Musina
Jason Giambi
Hideki Matsui
Johnny Damon

Real Phillies
Richie Ashburn
Larry Bowa
Mike Schmidt
Steve Carlton
Tony Talyor
John Kruk
Terry Mullholland (I threw him in just for you AJ)

True Reds
Pete Rose
Ken Griffey
Lee Maye
Tony Perez
Don Gullet
Johnny Bench
Joe Morgan
Dave Concepcion
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Cyrus Pinkertons favorite player).