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Re: cfpjbs post# 19249

Friday, 10/20/2006 6:21:45 PM

Friday, October 20, 2006 6:21:45 PM

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Born and bred in the Bronx....

....my father had a little superette a block away from the stadium on River Ave. Back in those days ball players were regular people.....no gold chains, Caddy Escalades with entourages, etc. They walked the neighborhood and shopped the neighborhood. I met them all, and I have to say my dad happened to be very friendly with alot of the players and management. I was a sports nut back in those days, was even a ballboy one season. Odd thing was that I wasn't a real Yankee fan....first the Giants and then the Mets...LOL.

Basketball season I was a 'street urchin' at the Garden...LOL. Can't tell you how many nights I spent walking to the subway stations carrying gym bags for the old Knicks. My brother dated Red Holzmans daughter for 2 years. (Can you imagine a pro athlete today traveling on the subway,,,,haha)

Absolutely no other place in the world to grow up. I still remember riding the #15-A bus standing on the back bumper with my fingertips gripping the rubber around the windows and breathing in the thick carbon monoxide fumes....I loved that smell...LOL.

Hope my trip down memory lane hasn't bored you guys,,,,but I'm sure that CFBJBS would agree that "you can take the kid out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the kid"