Episode Synopsis "Ruth Gehrig Dimaggio Mantle Horace Clarke: The Ties That Bind Through Sports"

The recent unveiling of the statue of Tom Seaver at Citi Field in New York elicited an understandable outpouring of emotion for the pitcher known as "The Franchise."  Seaver died on August 31, 2020.  A few weeks before that, another former New York baseball player died.  There will be no statues of Horace Clarke outside Yankee Stadium.  He became a symbol for an era in Yankees baseball that the franchise would prefer to forget.  It's easy to root for a team when it is winning championships.  But the true fan roots for a team just as passionately during bad times and remembers those teams just as lovingly.   I wrote this piece about Horace Clarke and my first baseball game after he died in 2020.  It popped again recently on social media, so I've decided to voice it as well.   This is the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years."  I hope you enjoy "Ruth Gehrig Dimaggio Mantle Horace Clarke: The Ties That Bind Through Sports."

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