Get ready to feel old.
Seriously, you’re about to be reminded of just how much you have aged in life when you see the roster for the 71st edition of the New York Yankees Old-Timers Game. According to the club release, legendary Yankees catcher Jorge Posada make his Old-Timers’ Day debut.
He’s only 45.
Posada won five World Series titles with the New York Yankees, and he earned five All-Star Game honors during his 17-year career. Tim “Rock” Raines, just recently enshrined into Cooperstown, will join fellow Hall of Fame members Whitey Ford, Rich “Goose” Gossage, Rickey Henderson, Reggie Jackson and Joe Torre on the Old-Timers’ roster. Raines is 57 by the way, so he’s actually just eight years shy of official senior citizen status. Thus, the Old-Timers’ Game will feature both the greatest (Henderson) and the second-greatest (Raines) leadoff hitter of all time.
This fact hits you in the same exact manner that Dr. Dre’s 50th birthday did a couple years ago.
Yes, Whitey Ford, so hopefully the Yankee Stadium crowd will not pelt him with pretzels, to the point where he is rendered unconscious.
Poor Pretzel Wagon! That was just terrible for brand association.
Some other interesting names on the New York Yankees Old Timers roster, which will make people on the tail end of Generation X/early cut-off for millenials include:
Joliet Hall of Fame mural member Jesse Barfield, Homer Bush, Red Sox fan nightmare Bucky Dent, “Louisiana Lightning” Ron Guidry, Charlie Hayes, Once valuable in 1990 baseball card Kevin Maas, very valuable 1989 rookie card Tino Martinez, Gene “Stick” Michael, Willie Randolph, Tanyon Sturtze, and Bernie Williams.
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