Josh Gibson, The Heartbreak Kid
Posted by John Holway on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Josh Gibson, The Heartbreak Kid The kid tapped his bat on Yankee Stadium’s home plate and tugged at the sleeves of his gray visitors’ uniform, revealing biceps “built like sledge hammers.” Before him, the stadium’s left field roof, with its famous gingerbread lattice facing, soared one hundred and eighteen feet into the air some four hundred feet from home plate. The scene was the World Series...read more
