[Craig Seeman] ” like a team that dumped its veterans too soon.”
I was at the #65 Yankees’ Old Timers Game last June. Yes, the New York Yankees are a corporation, with a billion-dollar valuation. And their history is long and illustrious enough to have started having old timers’ games 65 years ago.
I saw things I thought I never would. Yogi Berra, Joe Torre, Reggie Jackson, Lou Pinella and about 46 other icos of the sport. Tino Martinez hit a home run into the left field bleachers during the two-inning game between the “Bombers” and the “Clippers”. Talk about a living Field of Dreams.
And believe it or not, the “closer” in the regular game versus the Colorado Rockies was Mariano Rivera, who is actually “average age” for some of the old timers, and is one of the senior citizens of MLB, and currently holds the records in his category. For those who aren’t familiar to the game — a “closer” is the watertight pitcher that comes in to pitch the last inning who “closes down” the opposing team, sealing the win.
Too bad Apple eats its young. They trade out and retire their stars before they can even reach maturity in most cases.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?