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From: pellegri@ittral.UUCP (Dan Pellegrino)
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Subject: Ball parks and their teams (Yanks)
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 13:30:21 EDT
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> 	I also dislike seeing stadiums "cloned" from city to city.  It's more
> fun watching teams built for their home park.  Please don't ever take away
> Fenway or Wrigley.
> 
> 					Dave Van Handel

	Don't forget Yankee Stadium.  It still has its "death valley" in the
left-center/center field area.  Before it was renovated, the longest distance
to the wall from the plate was something like 463 feet!  The wall down the
right field line was around 291 feet!  Ah, yes... the distinct shape of Yankee
stadium is a characteristic that I wish they didn't alter, although it still is
similar.  

	I agree with Dave about the fun in watching teams being built for their
ball park.  I've always been a Yankee fan (not necessarily a Steinbrenner fan, 
but always a Yankee fan) and one will notice the great lefty HR hitters of
Yankee history: Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Marris and more recently Reggie.  Guys
like Nettles, Murcer and Gamble (none are Yankees any more) were always a
threat to pop one.  On the other hand, I've seen guys like Winfield and Baylor
tag the ball over 400 feet to left-center only to fly out.

	The Yankees like to staff good lefty pitchers to cause other teams to
bat right-handed more.  Often they had four lefties in the starting rotation
during home stands.  I've also seen 8 or 9 left-handed batters in the starting
lineup (if the opposing pitcher is a right-handed one, of course) numerous
times.

	Unfortunately, since I moved to North Carolina I haven't been able to
follow the Yankees much, so my information is a couple of years old.  All we
get here is Ted Turner's Braves (the self-proclaimed "America's Team") and I'm
not much of a National League fan at all.  Its a very sad situation (boo hoo).

	Oh, well ... someone talk about the Yankees once in a while.

                                     Dan Pellegrino
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P.S.- Phil Rizzuto should be in the Hall of Fame.