A Long-Time Tenant in Ruth’s House
“Oh, what a player that Ruth was,” Chan said recently as she pulled a Yankee cap over her head. “What a beautiful swing.”
Chan, who was 6 when her family moved to Manhattan from the Bronx, has been around to celebrate all of the Yankees’ 26 World Series championships, including the first in 1923, which came at the expense of the New York Giants.
“I’ve been a Yankee fan my whole life,” she said, “and that’s a pretty long time.”
When asked how long, she balked.
“Let’s just say I’m in my 80s and I’m lying about it,” she said.
Chan, a widow and mother of two who lives on the Upper East Side, still takes the train to her old neighborhood to watch the Yankees play, and she plans to visit their new house next season.
“It’s kind of sad that my guys are moving to a new stadium, but time changes everything,” she said. “I guess I’ll just take my memories across the street.”
Those memories stretch from Babe Ruth to Lou Gehrig — “Oh, that poor man, that’s all we could talk about when he got sick,” she said — to Joe DiMaggio to Mickey Mantle to Bobby Murcer to Don Mattingly to Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.
Chan has been a regular at Yankee Stadium since the mid-1930s, when she was an art student at Hunter College. She later became a sketch artist in the fashion industry.
“One year, there was a fire at Hunter, so the students were moved to an unoccupied building in the Bronx,” she said. “On the train ride home from school, my girlfriends and I would pass Yankee Stadium. We started getting off the train and going to the games, and I’ve been a die-hard ever since.”
Chan spends a good part of her year at her home in Palm Beach, Fla., but is back in New York before the start of each baseball season.
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Ripe it is. Also rife.
and…? Your link seems to confirm my statement (though it seems you haven’t done your research or even looked at the website you link). Does that mean you are retracting your statement? I listed 6 Jewish Senators that are (as far as I can tell) not “pro-war”:On, say, the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Boxer, Feingold, Levin, Wyden, and Sanders (in the House at the time) all voted No. Lautenberg, who I also list, recently voted Yes on the Iraq Withdrawal Amendment (he wasn’t in a member of the Senate in 2002).So what the fuck are you talking about? How is it that Barbara Boxer is “pro-war”? How is it that Russ Feingold is “pro-war”? How is it that Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden are “pro-war”? How can you claim with a straight face the 99% of Jewish candidates are “pro-war” when half of the elected Jewish Senators are not “pro-war”?On reddit, prejudice and lies like yours that defame Jews will be upmodded, especially when they begin with “I know I will be downmodded into oblivion”… I love that one.Edit: Add Ben Cardin to the list, I didn’t think of him because I didn’t know of him, but he also voted No on the 2002 Authorization. That makes a majority of the Jewish Senators not “pro-war” (using this reasonable standard).
I wish Lieberman would lose his seat. Or at least he could be honest and present himself as the neocon Republican he is.
I’m just impressed Subby visits sites other than theseminal.comAnd quotes aside, the implication was clearly being made that Lieberman intentionally sabotaged his site to get at his opponent. The FBI “pwnage” locks up that interpretation for the casual reader.A more honest headline would’ve been something along the lines of “FBI determines the suspected ‘hacking’ of Lieberman’s campaign webpage was actually just server overload.”Which is actually not that interesting a story, and probably why the headline had to be editorialized to get people enraged about a blip on the political newsfront.
You know your system administrators are shit when FBI gets to curse them…
I think digg users know a lot more about computing than statistics
Because it’s Reddit and it gets to the front page faster.J-Ro knows what he’s doing and has been called out many times before on this.
I believe they’re called quotation marks, not irony marks.I must admit, I love the idea of irony marks.
But he doesn’t do it for Christ.
Agreed. Lieberman was stupid but not necessarily evil. Evil was implied by the headline.
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Why waste our time EVEN DISCUSSING a former democrat who has, in effect, defected to the right-wing, neocon, RepubliGOON party to support John “I call my wife a trollop and a cunt” McNasty.The RepubliGOONS (and the power-grabbing Hillary-bot) must be stopped!Let’s each send another $20 or so to Obama on April 20th and spread this message! “TWENTY ON TWENTY!!!”McCain is angry, confused and unstable!
Say it ain’t so, Joe?I have officially lost faith in our 2-party duopoly.
What? Why would you assume your prejudiced and factually incorrect statements will be downmodded on reddit?? It seem (at this point) that your prejudice and flawed statements have been upmodded!Are you telling me Barbara Boxer is pro-war? Russ Feingold? Carl Levin? Bernie Sanders? Ron Wyden? Frank Lautenberg?I have to admit I haven’t researched this in detail, this is completely off the top of my head, but aren’t these half of the Jewish members of the Senate? If I’m not mistaken, I think all of them are anti-war. Yes, your one example of Diane Feinstein is pro-war, but hardly the 99% you claim.