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3 months later, I graduated high school.......

 

I hadn't celebrated my first birthday yet.

 

I was in 4th grade.

 

I was 7, so 2nd grade

 

In 1978, I wasn’t in somebody’s mind yet. I was born nine years later.

 

1978….
I was 12. My Dad was a fireman. His dept. did a trip to Yankee Stadium. Growing up in Northern NJ, I was suppose to be a Yankee fan or Mets fan… but I was a catcher in little league and idolized Carleton Fisk, the Red Sox catcher. I was a Red Sox fan.
We were at the last game of the season. Yankees vs Cleveland. Cleveland won 9-2 and led to the Yankees and Red Sox tying for the division…
I was proudly wearing my Boston Red Sox batting helmet. The ENTIRE stadium started chanting ‘BOSTON SUCKS! BOSTON SUCKS! Over and over and over.
My father, whom I had never heard say the ‘f’ word…. Leaned over to me and said ‘Put that f****** helmet under your shirt and head for the exit!’
Great memory. Thanks John

That was the year the Sox and Yanks met in a single game to see you would go to the play offs….1978..
Bucky F’ing Dent hit the homer to win…