[drmondobueno]

When I was quite young -six or seven, I think, the Saturday game of the week featured the Yankees, and I sat about three feet from the old B&W TV with a terrible picture listening to an “interview” between Yogi and Dizzy Dean. I was fascinated by these two. So my first baseball hero was Berra and I could never figure out why Dizzy wasn’t on any longer...

Thome to me was a guy whose play was discounted because he was “just a power guy”. And he kept at it when others fell to the wayside. Two different careers by two class acts.