Who did you root for bigkid ? Now and Then.
When I was a kid I asked my mother for a Yankee hat like the other kids had on the block. She smacked me and said my uncle(a Brooklyn Dodger fan) would kill me if he heard that. From that day on I was a Met fan for life.
When I worked at Sperry Gyroscope I would hear all the stories of the Polo grounds and Ebbetts field from the WW2 guys.
I loved those stories and this thread brings them back to life.
Kind of a weird one, I am one of those people who is sort of dual allegiance. I was born after the Dodgers and Giants moved to the west coast, so through my mom I was a Mets fan but with my dad a Yankees fan, kind of hard not to pick that up, too. I would describe myself as more a Mets fan (why, I don't know, I must love self abuse, it is why I do software testing for a living *lol*),but I also still follow the Yankees somewhat
. On the other hand to her dying day my mom said rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for the phone company *lol*.
