Sounds Like A Good Time Was Had By All!
When I returned to collecting baseball cards in 1983 one of the first things I put together were complete 1960 Topps team sets of the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees because that was a very traumatic World Series for me.
Having grown up in the New York area with a father and two grandfathers who were die-hard Yankee fans, the Yankees were my team, too. Back in those days, the television networks didn't call the shots and I remember running home after school to catch the ends of the afternoon games.
I got home just in time to watch the Yankees tie the score in the top of the ninth of the seventh game only to see Mazeroski homer off of Ralph Terry to win it for the Pirates in the bottom of the ninth. I think I saw Yogi Berra standing at the wall watching the ball clear the fence in my dreams for at least a week.
It must have been great to schmooze with those guys.
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