10/12: About James Varghese
Posted by: James
Well, to begin with, I was born April 3, 1981 in Bihar, India (that's north India to those playing along at home) but spent the first 6 years or so of my life growing up in Kerala, which is where the rest of my family is from (that's alllll the way at the bottom tip of south India). My parents busted their butts and got over to America in 1986, leaving my older sister & I with our grandparents for a year until they came back to get us in 87. We lived in Port Chester & Yonkers, NY, which are respectively about 25 and 10 miles away from Yankee Stadium, for two years apiece. I guess you could call that time period the beginnings of my Yankee foundation. You couldn't really move 10 yards without seeing someone talking about baseball or wearing some Yankee gear and before you knew it, I started getting caught up in that classic interlocking NY.