I like it!
Nice … Maybe they will put it in Atlanta as well.
Yogi Berra rode some trains. NY Times article about the good old days…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/sports/10anderson.html?_r=0
“When the train arrived at Grand Central in midmorning, the writers bought their papers and yes, their articles had been published. Tossed to a telegrapher from a train that never stopped. You can’t do that on a jet.”
True. Today they could type it on a laptop, tablet or smartphone, upload to their blogsite and it would be, “Published,” before they got the finger off the ENTER button.
Even on a jet.
Chuck
A few last leaves like Yogi have a lot to remember for all of us. Those train rides from the eastern U.S. to the then-outpost of MLB, in St. Louis, probably took more out of the players than modern plane rides to the West Coast.
For one thing, there was time for a lot of drinking. The Cleveland Indians were a team that was well-known for lifting a few – a reason even advanced for their failure to catch the Yankees so often in the first half of the 1950s.
In the 1990s, former Indians 3rd-sacker Al Rosen – then GM of the Giants – made gentle fun of all the modern emphasis on weight-lifting. Indians teammate Bob Lemon, a Hall of Famer, “never lifted anything heavier than a cocktail glass,” Rosen said.
Conditioning was 12 oz curls!
