A Most Spectacular Yankee Game!
By Tyler Albani
On Tuesday, September 29th, the Junior and Senior high school young men got to go to the Yankees vs. Kansas City Royals game. This game was a present to us from Pastor Graf because of all the work that we did at the church with helping out with different things. Now, about this game, it wasn’t just a game, it was much more than that… here’s how our day went—
We were at school “doing work” until about 1:35 p.m. when we stopped what we were doing and we started heading towards the old faithful church van. As we were heading to the van with Bro. Josh Fryman, we saw Barry Greer and Jonathan Rivera sitting out in Bro. Greer’s car. When we walked out of the building, Bro. Greer saw me wearing my Cardinals stuff. He said that he respected me wearing this paraphernalia, but he also feared for me walking into the stadium with that on. Anyway, so after he said that I put my Ohio State sweatshirt on. So we finally loaded up the van and went to go to Yankee Stadium to catch the 4:00 pm. batting practice.
We made it to the stadium at 3:15 p.m. which gave us time to look at the Yankee stores near the stadium. They were very expensive. I tried to look for a Yankee hat to replace my Cardinals one, but they were just too expensive. Back to the story…
We got into the stadium at 4:02 p.m. and went down to right field to watch the batting practice. Almost every one of us got a baseball from the players down on the field. Justin Johnston got a signed baseball from one of the relieve pitchers. When batting practice was over, we got some food and then went to our seats. They were great seats. At around 6:45 p.m., they started a ceremony for Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. It was a great surprise. We stayed for the whole game. Our group even started a wave at around the 8th inning and the whole stadium participated! The Yankees had a great comeback and we all lost our voices! Yay!! It was a great time! It was the best game that I (and pretty much everyone else) had ever been to!
Now for other news—the reason I mentioned my Cardinals hat and shirt is because during our batting practice enjoyment, I went with a few other guys to Monument
Park. While we were on our way there, I stopped at one of those little shirt and hat vendors and bought myself a Yankee hat. By the end of the game I realized my true colors are blue and white pinstripes, and not red and white. I, and almost Bro. Josh Fryman, got converted to Yankees fans by the end of the game. So, all I can say is, “Go Yankees!” Here’s a picture of my new Yankees shirt. C.C. Sabathia has been very good lately, let's hope he keeps it up!
Yankee Mania has arrived at Long Island Baptist Academy and signs of the upcoming World series are showing up all over the place! Mrs. Graf, a true-blue Yankee fan, encourages all the students to wear Yankee paraphernalia.and to support the finest team in baseball! Here she is with Bernie sporting his "Battle Royale" shirt:
