Opening Day
That's Derek Jeter hitting a game-winning home run against the Kansas City Royals yesterday,
Opening Day at the Stadium. What a terrific picture! That iconic image of the batter swinging through a pitch, head down, feet turning, driving the ball over the fence...
And the Yanks weren't the only team having a successful Opening Day yesterday. The Sox, who are starting the season hot-hot-hot, beat the Blue Jays, 5-3. Here's David Ortiz (Ortiz and Jeter—who else?) after his game-winning home run...
It all kinda makes you think that this could be a heckuva season.....
And it reminds me that now is probably a good time to let you in on my latest project: a book about the Yankees-Red Sox season of 1978. You may remember that that was the season in which the Yankees and the Red Sox fielded two of the greatest teams in their history and wound up playing a one-game playoff at the end of the regular season to determine the pennant-winner. The Yankees won, 5-4, mostly because of a three-run homer by shortstop Bucky Dent. (Bucky F'ing Dent, as some of you may know him.)
It's a fascinating season with some long-term importance for baseball, and I can't wait to write about it.....
