Saturday diversion: not an anniversary, really, but a good excuse

ALDS game 3, nine years ago
You baseball fans will know what I mean if I refer to The Jeter Play that helped the Yankees stave off elimination years ago in Oakland. In fact, I missed that play live (it was parents visiting weekend at college for one of our daughters) and to this day I have never seen a video of the whole play. Given that the two AL series are playing Game 3 today, and that that was a Game 3, today is a sorta anniversary.

This morning I came across the link to George Vecsey’s column about that play which, because we were out of town that weekend, I never saw before. It is a classic piece by a terrific writer.

Please enjoy Slide, Jeremy, Slide, Slide from October 26, 2001 (I need not explain why that Game 3 was played so late in the month).

© Sandy Mattingly 2010

 

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