I've been a Yankee hater ever since I was a wee pup. When I became aware of baseball as a first grader in 1958-59, there was a very large contingent of Yankee fans among the big kids in the schoolyard. This of course pushed me in the opposite direction and I was first and foremost a fan of whoever was playing the Yankees through my formative years up to and including the 1964 World Series.
