I too remember that day as a 9 year old. Just becoming a baseball fan(Cubs) a couple years earlier, the Yankees were my back up team as I watched them in the playoffs and World Series. Mom would let me stay up late to watch the night games and these are my earliest memories of baseball. I was in total shock as that was the first person in sports that I followed that had ever passed away and I just couldn't understand how that could happen to someone so young and was still playing the game. His 1978 Topps card was also one of the first I ever pulled from a pack and still enjoy looking at it today. RIP!
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