Who are/were your parents favorite teams and players?

[D. Bergin]

Via my Dad (Mom never cared about any team other then my Little League/Babe Ruth League teams).

Yankees, Giants, Whalers, UCONN Huskies (basketball, football)

I inherited all those teams until the Whalers moved out of town.

My first Yankee game my father took me to was 1978 in the nosebleeds at Yankee Stadium. I was 7 years old. I remember it was a night game. I remember the Yankees lost. I remember Thurman Munson hit a foul ball backwards and completely out of the stadium, which for some reason I thought was some sort of super-human act, and I swore I would find that baseball in the grass somewhere after we left the stadium (spoiler alert - I did not).

I also remember it being some off-brand team they were playing (non-AL East Team), and some sort of big lumbering 1st Baseman/DH type hitting 2 homers against them, though I might have imagined it as I can't find any corroborating evidence of this no matter how hard I try.

Also...it might have been 1977 or 1979. Kids brains are still forming, and who knows what really happened that night, or when it actually occurred.

[JustinD]

Strangely, my dad talks more about Rocky Colovito more than anyone I have ever met.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by JustinD

Strangely, my dad talks more about Rocky Colovito more than anyone I have ever met.

At least Colovito was a Star. My dad talks about the oddball guys waaaay more then the Superstars on all the teams he rooted for.

I swear every time we talk about the Yankees, he regales me with the same stories about Ryne Duren and his Coke Bottle glasses and his wildness.

With the guys he grew up with, he never talks about Maris, Mantle, Yogi and Whitey Ford.

It's Duren, Tommy Tresh, Joe Pepitone, Roy White, Tony Kubek, Bobby Murcer and Mel Stottlemyre, etc...

I think he figures, the superstars are obvious and boring to talk about.

[Snapolit1]

My dad’s guy was Duke Snyder. Only a few years ago I looked up Snyder’s numbers for the first time and was like “oh … shit …”. He still holds a number of Dodger offensive records.

[NiceDocter]

My Dad got his Masters at Columbia and watched his favorite fellow Marylander play at Yankee Stadium …. Charlie “King Kong” Keller. His nephew ( a 6 foot 5 guy with a Marine Flat top haircut) …. Jack Keller …. was my Drivers Ed teacher and our Varsity Baseball coach.

[philliesfan]

My father only liked baseball of the four major sports. His team of coarse was the Phillies. He was a smoker and had lung cancer. During the 1980 World Series, (and playoffs) I watched all the games with him instead of hanging out with my friends watching at local bars. He was so happy when the Phillies got the last out to secure the title. He passed away a year later and I know it meant a lot to him that I was with him. It meant a lot to me also.
Bob

[Snapolit1]

Great story Bob.