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by Tom Zuber
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Editor's note: Tom 7.uber, a junior
Chemistry major from Chapel Hill, spent 17
years in Parkridge, N.J. During that time, he
became an avid New York Yankee baseball
fan. Last week, Zuber returned to New York
City to watch the final two games of the 1976
World Series.
With two on and a full count on Mantle,
the Yankees were down to their final out of
the World Series. This was the ultimate in
sports confrontations; an entire season
would be decided by this one pitch.
The pitcher wound up slowly, and then
fired a fastball toward the plate. He lifted his
head just enough to watch me smash the
wiffleball over the hedge and into a
neighbor's yard. . .
As a child growing up outside New York
City, 1 watched the Yankees excel in many
such encounters. They often played against
the likes of my four brothers in wiffleball
games, or the neighborhood kids in stickball
challenges. As Whitey Ford or Mel
Stottlemyre, I pitched to thousands of
opposing foes with a tennis ball against the
gym wall.
Back in those days, the Yankees were the
kingpins of baseball. They were the
champs the players I idolized in my dreams
and in the games I played.
I was born a New York Yankee fan.
But something happened to the Yankees
in 1964. The Yankee dynasty came to an
abrupt end. I still recall the St. Louis
Cardinals' Ken Boyer reaching into the third
base stands and retiring the Yankees for that
final out in the '64 Series. After that, the
Yankees lost Richardson, Maris, Kubek and
Ford. Mantle stayed on, but even he couldn't
prevent the plummet to the American
League cellar.
When they slid to the bottom, I slid with
them. I kept faithful when they relied on the
power of a Ron Woods or a Horace Clarke,
or the pitching prowess of a Dooley
Womack. Those were rough times for the
die-hard Yankee fan.
But the frustration ended in 1976. Trades
drastically altered the structure of the team.
They acquired a new manager and moved to
a beautifully refurbished stadium. The new
Yankees went on to take their division and
the American League Championship. With
the World Series returning to New York
after a twelve-year absence, a New Jersey ite-turned-Tar
Heel decided to return, also.
I can get excited about going to New York
for any reason, but this was a very special
event. The Yankees were playing the World
Champion Cincinnati Reds.
The Reds are an exceptional team, strong
in every aspect of the game. I didn't expect
that the Yankees would win the Series, but I
knew they were capable of such a feat. I was
sure they would make it exciting.
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Upon arrival in New York, 1 realized that
a large part of my World Series experience
would first involve getting to the stadium,
and second, finding a ticket to get inside.
The first problem involved that old New
York nemesis traffic. It's a known fact
that New York City traffic is as
unpredictable as the rain in Chapel Hill.
From my home in New Jersey, getting to
Yankee Stadium can be a pleasant forty
minute drive or a grueling four-hour
extravaganza. The third and fourth games of
the Series exemplified this problem.
For game three, traffic breezed right into
the stadium. The next night, however, it was
different. Approaching the Bronx, I noticed
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stadium was backed up for miles. So I
decided to try a different access route.
Unfortunately, so did several thousand other
people. I soon found myself in a single lane
of standstill traffic.
It came to me that my chances of finding
tickets were almost nil if 1 go i there in the
fourth inning, so I realized that desperate
action was in order.
I decided to try and cut to the front
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I tried the former. I turned off the car
lights, put the accelerator to the floor
passed hundreds of cars as I traveled in a
non-existent left lane. Sure enough, the first
car took the bait. He let me back in line.
The problem of obtaining tickets was
resolved by buying from the scalpers. Now
for those who have never dealt with this
lower form of existence, a scalper is someone
who buys a ticket and then sells it at a higher
price. This illegal practice can be quite
profitable.
The original cost of Series tickets were $ 1 0
and $ 15. In the past, scalped tickets had gone
for $100 or more. When I first arrived at the
stadium, prices were hovering around $50 a
ticket. The key in forcing a scalper to lower
his price, however, is patience. Usually, the
closer the sale is made to game time, the
lower the price of the ticket.
As it turned out, buying scalped tickets for
the 1976 Series was anticlimactic. Those of
us making the purchases had several factors
in our favor. First, the Yankees were down 2
0 when the Series came to New York. That,
and the cold weather, caused some people to
stay home and watch the games on
television. Also, the arrest of several scalpers
by plain-clothes policemen influenced their
associates to lower their prices and unload
their tickets. Thus, prices came tumbling
down from $50 a ticket to $10 and $15. So
finally, ticket in hand, I was inside Yankee
Stadium.
Walking into the refurbished stadium, my
thoughts floated back to the old structure. A
lot had changed. But although I loved the old
stadium, the refurbished one had many
advantages. The lighting, parking facilities,
exit ramps, and scoreboard were all much
improved. Gone were the support poles that
often obstructed one's view. The refurbished
Stadium was, indeed, beautiful.
Yet I couldn't help but feel that many of
the old features would be missed. The white
facade of the upper deck, the left-center field
graveyard, the low, close fences and the
centerfield monuments (now in the bullpen)
were all part of what made the 'House that
Ruth Built' the greatest ballpark in the
world. I still wonder whether the $100
million of renovation, coming at a time of
near-financial disaster, was worth it.
I immediately noticed that the new
stadium had no place to hang the
championship banners as the old structure
did. Nevertheless, the reminders of the
Yankee heritage still existed. The scoreboard
flashed pictures of previous Yankee greats,
leaving older fans reminiscing.
Joe "Mr. Coffee" DiMaggio and the old
voice of the Yankees, Mel Allen, were on
hand to throw out the first balls. One elderly
gentleman sported a World Series jacket a
transparent coat displaying Series ticket
stubs from some of the Yankee's 29 previous
classics.
. The Stadium lights glistened down on the
patched field where only a week earlier a
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Yankee's 30th pennant. Homemade signs
lined the upper decks, while the familiar red,
white and blue semi-circular banners draped
the fences and dugout roofs. I screamed
along with the other fans, for the scene was
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But the 1976 World Series was different.
The Reds swept the Yanks in four straight
games. Unfortunately, the Yankees were not
even close in three of them. They hadn't
' come to play. This was not the same Yankee
club that won 97 regular season games.
It's easy to see why the Yankees lost. In the
two games they played in New York, the
Yankees hit, pitched and fielded poorly. The
sparks to the Yankee running game, Mickey
Rivers and Willie Randolph, both batted
under .100 for the Series. Defensively, the
Yanks let pop flies drop, threw wildly and
sometimes to the wrong base. Offensively,
they provided one of the poorest batting
exhibitions in recent World Series history.
I came to the World Series to be
entertained. Instead, I left disgusted with a
poor exhibition of baseball. Cincinnati
didn't play well, either. The Reds made their
share of mistakes, but they didn't need, to
display their talents. The Yankees just didn't
have it.
In retrospect, I had a pleasant time the few
days I spent in New York. The color of the
trees along the Palisades and New Jersey
parkways was as spectacular as the view
from the World Trade Center. Manhattan
was as much fun as ever. With all the
excitement in the city, I wonder why I
shivered inside Yankee Stadium for two
uneventful evenings. v
I guess the answer to that, however, is the
same motivating force for any fan who
attends a sporting event. I went to see my
team play. Above that, I went to be
entertained by the best of baseball.
Although disappointed, I realize that the
Yankees have another shot next year. And if
they get to the World Series again, I know
where I'll spend a few more chilly October
nights. Even though this was the first World
Series I'd attended, I know from others of
the exciting play of past classics. And now I
know the thrill of just being there.
Hockey faces Wake
In spite of her team's three straight losses,
UNC Field Hockey Coach Dolly Hunter
remained confident about the Tar Heels'
chances against Wake Forest when they
travel to Winston-Salem today.
"We should have the advantage against
Wake Forest," Hunter said. "AH the schools
we know that have played them have beaten
them."
The Deacons are having an off year,"
Hunter said. "They've been very strong in the
past, but this year they just haven't been
doing too well."
The Tar Heels have plenty to lose but little
to gain in today's game. A win would leave
them with an unimpressive 5-3 season,
though it could boost their momentum for
next week's Deep South Tournament, while
a loss would drop the once 4-0 team to a .500
regular season mark.
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