Yankee Old Timer's Day is on right now and I feel ancient. I'm older than half these guys
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I know the feeling.
I used to love watching these annual games when I was a kid. Joe D. was always the last player announced
and then Mrs. Lou Gehrig and Mrs. Babe Ruth were introduced from the stands. The crowd would always go wild.
You took the words right out of my mouth. I remember those games on Channel 11 vividly. Those two old broads (and I mean that affectionately) were beloved by the New York fans
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And re the Widow Gehrig: "The Pride of the Yankees" is a wonderful film, and probably the greatest baseball movie ever. But they took a lot of liberties. For instance, in the film Lou's mother and wife came to care for each other. In reality they hated each other's guts. They were tied up in lawsuits with one another until the day Gehrig's mother died.
