06/24: Mel Allen
Posted by: Patrick
Stephen Borelli has a story about Mel Allen's departure and return to the Yankees.
We went to Yankee Day at the Florida State Fair before the 1996 season. I don't remember much of it (I actually got dehydrated, so we left a little earlier than we would have normally, and threw up on the way out), but I met Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, Jim Leyritz and Catfish Hunter. My dad and mom/brother met Mel Allen, Hoyt Wilhelm, Ron Guidry, Scott Kamieniecki and probably 1 or 2 others if I recall correctly. Mr. Allen died shortly thereafter, of course.
Via Peter Abraham.
In the mid-1950s, an assistant football coach at Northwestern blindly placed a call to Allen seeking advice on how to get into sportscasting. Allen spent an hour on the phone with him.
"He didn't know me from Eve," said Steinbrenner, that coach. "He cared about the little guy. I tried to never forget it."
"He didn't know me from Eve," said Steinbrenner, that coach. "He cared about the little guy. I tried to never forget it."
We went to Yankee Day at the Florida State Fair before the 1996 season. I don't remember much of it (I actually got dehydrated, so we left a little earlier than we would have normally, and threw up on the way out), but I met Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, Jim Leyritz and Catfish Hunter. My dad and mom/brother met Mel Allen, Hoyt Wilhelm, Ron Guidry, Scott Kamieniecki and probably 1 or 2 others if I recall correctly. Mr. Allen died shortly thereafter, of course.
Via Peter Abraham.
