yanks old timer's day

Awesome. Hope we read some inspiring stories about it soon. : :

 

Kevin Kernan's Post column on the absent Scooter:

http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/absent_scooter_missed_by_all_yankees_kevin_kernan.htm

 

I personally don't like seeing old timer's day. Some of those guys shouldn't be out without a helper and that's sad to see.

 

My first reaction to this very sweet column was that it felt like a premature obit. By the end, however, I just hoped Scooter could read it, or that maybe someone read it to him.

 

So sad that he had to put "WW" in the scorebook yesterday.

 

I don't think many teams do them any more. A decade rr so ago there was a sponsor that underwrote one in every ML city, but that fell by the wayside.

 

Too bad. I've got a real hankering to see what Rolando Arrojo and Kevin Stocker are doing at DRays Old Timers Day.

 

So the Cardinals don't do it anymore?

 

I think, as more and more players move into the "old-timer" era who went through the process of free agency, it will fall by the wayside. Although it's been shown there really isn't that much more player movement than there used to be during the era of the reserve clause, the difference is that a lot more of the movement is elective -- players leave a city because they WANT to leave.

When a player leaves because he WANTS to leave, that tends to dampen any warm-and-fuzzy feelings he had about a team, or a city, during his career.

The fact, also, that the huge majority of teams have now moved out of the parks they played in while the "old-timers" were active, I think, has done a lot to kill it, too.