Not everybody who plays on the Yankees can be a "True Yankee." They can be pretty good players and good guys and a big part of the team but they don't make it to that mythic state of "True Yankee."
I mean look at Mark Teixeria. Good player. Great glove. Decent hitter. But mainly a bust in the post season. He is like a lot of guys who had decent years as a Yankee but who aren't really core guys. Guys like Tino Martinez. JIm Spencer. Scott Brocius. Danny Cater. A-Rod. These are guys who had great years with other teams and are not "True Yankees."
Other guys might only be here for a little while but remain Yankee hero's because of the way they played in the big games. Fred Chicken Stanly. Horace Clarke. Paul O'Niell. Mickey Rivers. Roger Maris. Bobby Richardson. Billy Martin. Jorge Posada. Derek Jeter.
You know them when you see them.
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Fred Merkle. Very much underappreciated Yankee, should be on your list, Troop.
The most traded baseball card in our neighborhood for at least 2 summers was "Merkle Pulls Boner".
Wish I had that card now.
Mickey Rivers???
King Kong Keller!
Is that Joe Biden in that picture?
john, Fred Merkle is from my bride's hometown of Watertown, Wi. At my first Thanksgiving meal her parents were telling me about an astronaut from Watertown, the first kindergarten was there[Octagon House], etc. Being a baseball trivia geek I pointed out Fred Merkle was from there and explained his infamy. One of the many reasons I never got into politics and an example of why winbag dislikes me.
Roy White instead of Mickey Rivers.
Raul Ibanez is the greatest man that ever lived!
To me the Yankees will always be Phil Rizzuto.
Wasn't Fred Merkle famous because he got a boner?
I saw Maris and Mantle play. Yogi was a player coach then. They were Y*nkees. A-Rod, not so much.
A-Rod is a bitch.
I did like Phil Rizzuto...
Let's not forget this guy...
Wow, what a grim series. I'm not sure whether the Yanks won it or barely outlasted Bal'more. Well anyway, congrats.
I never grows old...
The second favorite card that summer was the picture of old Yankee stadium with the trace of the flight of Mantle's "600 ft" homerun against the right field facade.
Only in the ever so fertile minds of the NY sportswriters was that ball still rising. But even so, it was a pretty amazing hit.
Adam Dunn hit a homer that went a hundred miles (floated down the Ohio River). I don't think he ever played for the Yankees tho, probably the only team left for him.
There are some hot painters across the street from me right now.
I love foreign blue collar trade.
tits.
Peyton's Head has some great tweets.
Real Yankees don't break their ankles.
Gints win!
Aaron Rodgers threw six touchdowns last night against the Houston team.
Six touchdowns. Or as the Jets Mark Sanchez would call it "a season."
Titus, how is New England taking the loss?
Okay, I'm going out on a limb and predicting the Yanks take two out of three in Detroit. Hey, if I'm wrong I'm wrong. But if I'm right...genius!!!
The Jets should dump Sanchez and work with Tebow. Tebow can't throw, but he can run and he can win. And who knows, maybe they can make a QB of him.
Wilson managed to dig deep and beat Brady yesterday in Seattle. And Wilson can run as well as Tebow.
Wilson was a good quarterback at State, and did okay up in the land of the cheese eaters.
Tebow has yet to learn how to play the position. Not saying he won't, but odds are that he will wash out of the league.
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