Thanks for the article! I went back to my childhood in New York to the time a family from Chicago moved next door. We played sports together and impersonated our favorite players. I'll always remember how we exaggerated the Rick Sutcliffe bent-wrist pitching motion. As far as my favorite September performance, I'll go with Shane Spencer on the Yankees in '98. In 38 AB, he smacked 8 homers, and batted .421. He seemed to be a Mickey Mantle sorta lookalike that came out of nowhere.
Those 90s Yankees were amazing, and Spencer's run was a blast to watch, even as someone with no skin in the game. Of course, the baseball world *may* have had a couple other stories to focus on that month, too.
That NYY team was out of this world. Spencer helped the Yanks win the division by 22 games instead of 20. :)
Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa vs. Shane Spencer... very good point! The first two won the attention of those rooting for initial twins and home runs for sure. For the Yankees, it was definitely Kris Kringle season in Autumn that year, everything was going right, even if Spencer ended up being a performance-enhancing shrug :)
Thanks for the article! I went back to my childhood in New York to the time a family from Chicago moved next door. We played sports together and impersonated our favorite players. I'll always remember how we exaggerated the Rick Sutcliffe bent-wrist pitching motion. As far as my favorite September performance, I'll go with Shane Spencer on the Yankees in '98. In 38 AB, he smacked 8 homers, and batted .421. He seemed to be a Mickey Mantle sorta lookalike that came out of nowhere.
Great memories -- thanks for sharing!
Those 90s Yankees were amazing, and Spencer's run was a blast to watch, even as someone with no skin in the game. Of course, the baseball world *may* have had a couple other stories to focus on that month, too.
That NYY team was out of this world. Spencer helped the Yanks win the division by 22 games instead of 20. :)
Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa vs. Shane Spencer... very good point! The first two won the attention of those rooting for initial twins and home runs for sure. For the Yankees, it was definitely Kris Kringle season in Autumn that year, everything was going right, even if Spencer ended up being a performance-enhancing shrug :)