This movie made me hate Yankee Fans.
The way they acted toward the players was disgusting. Showed how spoiled they were back then (in fact they still are). I'm glad there suffering now with the Yankees losing.
shareThe way they acted toward the players was disgusting. Showed how spoiled they were back then (in fact they still are). I'm glad there suffering now with the Yankees losing.
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can't really blame them...they didn't know Maris personally just like we don't know the celebs...we use the papers and websites to make a determination of them...and at that time Mickey Mantle was painted as a God while Maris was the "evil" one...when in fact just like 61* showed...Mantle was the screwed up one...and Maris the guy next door you would love your daughter to marry.
"it was a cool name, until that no talent ass clown won a grammy"
There are few things more entertaining to see than the tears and shock on a Yankee fan's face when their team loses. "Whaa...the Yankees LOST?" It reminds me of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "...I'm INVINCIBLE!"
It happens more often than a Yankee fan will ever admit, and it's pure gold every time.
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I know Tracy Stallard (the pitcher who gave up homer #61 to Roger Maris) and he said he couldn't believe how bad the Yankee fans booed Maris when he came to the plate that fateful day in 1961. Ever since then, he said, he's had no use whatsoever for Yankee fans. In an ironic twist of fate, Stallard and Maris would later become teammates on the Cardinals where both finished their careers.
shareIn his commentary, Billy Crystal said he amped up the fans screaming and booing, so it may not have been as bad as it appears. The fans knew Mickey Mantle, so they showed preference to him, and saw Maris as the new guy. As we can see from the film, the press didn't help things at all.
BTW, if you still want to hate Yakee fans, well....okay! We can take it. If you want to fight about it, give us a minute. We have to put down all these World Series Trophies we've been carrying around!
BWT2: I've watched a lot of games around the country and the worst acting fan I ever saw was a guy in Atlanta who spent 7 innings cursing at the top of his lungs, Steve Carton who was pitching for the Phillies. Finally security came in and dragged him away (still cursing) as the whole area applauded. Its not NY, there are jerks eveywhere.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
The irony is, they booed Mantle up until 1961. He even made a joke, saying, "Roger has stolen my fans." I believe part of it was also Maris' antagonism towards New York. He was uncomfortable in the spotlight, and New York was going to be a bad place for him. He separated himself from the media and the fans, because by nature, he was a physical person, not a verbal one.
Snoopy is one cool cat...although he's a dog.
It wasn't the spotlight unless by "spotlight" you mean the obnoxious, foul-mouthed, rude, arrogant fans and media of New York that made him uncomfortable. So glad I finally got out of that hellhole.
shareYankee fans have always been loudmouthed jerkoffs. Most Noo Yawkers are.
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally."
W. C. Fields
showed how spoiled they were back then (in fact they still are). I'm glad there suffering now with the Yankees losing
Yankees fans are incredibly hardcore. In his autobiography, Rudy Giuliani said that when he was a kid, he grew up in Brooklyn (Dodgers territory at the time) and then his family moved to a different part of New York that worshipped the Yankees. When the neighborhood kids found out he was a Dodgers fan, they literally tried to put a noose around his neck and hang him, before a neighbor chased them off and saved him.
"I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out."