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For Father’s Day
Given that its Father’s Day weekend, I’m going to offer up something a bit more serious. This is an essay I wrote for a series of “Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories” over at Bronx Banter back in 2008. An abridged version … Continue reading
Cancer Can’t Kill my Love of the Game
(Note: Some of this originally appeared in my piece in the “Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories” anthology) My parents were divorced in 1965, when I was two years old. In the prior couple of years, my father had begun exhibiting signs … Continue reading →