1993 Old Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium - 7-24-1993

[@lewtube1]

Graig Nettles is one of the most underrated Yankees. I still remember back when we used to play ball after school and when anyone made an incredible play, someone would scream out Nettles!

[@PeteRFNY]

He was one of my Dad's favorite players, he loved his guts and grit!

[@richardtoplitsky5143]

I miss this kind of baseball

[@fasteddie9867]

Me too--today's "baseball" is an abomination courtesy of Bud Selig.

[@lestuttle7839]

Thanks for sharing your video--Yankee old timers days are always great to see!

[@PeteRFNY]

You're welcome, hoping to post more stuff when I can!

[@thoth47]

thank you for uploading these gems

[@sandy3482]

Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle and Joe D. the last great Old Timers game

[@TheLocalLt]

This was a very special event, usually it’s just old Yankees players, but to have a ton of guys from the Yankees 1978 opponents also participating is really phenomenal. Also very cool to see the consummate pro Frank Messer back at Yankee Stadium, he was as sharp as ever in this ceremony!

[@PeteRFNY]

Frank kept doing OTD until he simply couldn't do it anymore. It used to drive me crazy that the MSG announcers always talked OVER the introductions like that. Don't know why they thought that was a good idea.

[@TheLocalLt]

@@PeteRFNY yeah it makes no sense why they did that. It seems the Yankees didn’t love it, never heard them do that on YES.

[@kevinvanmeter2264]

Frank Messer deserves the Ford Frick Award and the shrine To Cooperstown!

[@PeteRFNY]

100%, a real pro announcer if there ever was one!

[@epaddon]

@@PeteRFNY Sadly, Frank's reputation got trashed by a guy named Curt Smith, who presented himself as the supposed know-it-all authority on baseball broadcasting history when he wrote a book called "Voices of the Game" in 1987. He rudely dismissed the totality of Frank's work in one sentence when referring to him in passing and because he's on the HOF announcing committee, Frank sadly will never get his due credit until he's gone at bare minimum.

[@CoolAce1]

Messer was so much better than Kaye at broadcasting and doing these special events.

[@stevenwaller2934]

Yoooo baby Dewayne Staats! This Rays fan was super excited to hear his voice out of nowhere.

[@thevirginian5746]

I'd almost forgotten that the Yankees used to be on MSG! I miss the Old-Timers Days when they would trot out the Scooter, the Mick (who only had a couple of years left), Whitey and Joe D. I think Yogi was still refusing to come back ever since George Steinbrenner fired him like 16 games into the season back in the '80's. Sadly, those greats are no longer with us. A lot of the '78 team is still with us, though.

[@fasteddie9867]

My favorite Yankee team of all time!!

[@epaddon]

I'll look forward to seeing more of what you have to post!

[@PeteRFNY]

Thanks - it was looking at YOUR channel that inspired me to start digitizing my old tapes! I was all set to start diving in and I messed up my shoulder so I haven't been able to start moving boxes around, but I will be doing that soon!

[@dgisgd]

And now the guys from 1993 are old-timers

[@PeteRFNY]

I watched guys from the 1998 team at Old Timer's Day THIS year and felt ancient! 😄

[@richardtoplitsky5143]

Only the Yankees could do it right on old timers day nobody. Does it like the Yankees

[@PeteRFNY]

My Dad and I used to go every year from the mid-70s to the 80s. He'd tell me stores all about the greats as they were introduced and all the things he'd seen in person in the 40s and 50s. As a little kid I soaked that in like a sponge.

[@robinlinh]

bro the game looks legit af. They could still played actual ball despite being retired.

[@PeteRFNY]

@robinlinh I hate that they no longer play an old-timer's game, they just introduce everyone. Like a lot of other things (like the incredibly ridiculous "ghost runner" nonsense), they started it using c-19 as an excuse, then conveniently never went back to it. They should just call it "alumni day" now.

[@bryanpangburn1344]

I was literally one day old during this lol. I was born 7/23/1993

[@seamhead23]

The sound goes off during Thurman Munson tribute 😫😫😫

[@beakt]

What song did they play for Munson's tribute?

[@PeteRFNY]

It was "One Moment In Time" by Whitney Houston. UMG hit me before the clip was even done processing! 😄

[@richardtoplitsky5143]

wow 1993 30 years ago the Yankees could of won the division that year

[@PeteRFNY]

If the wild card had existed in the 80s (especially) and early 90s, I wonder how many times the Yankees would have actually made the post-season. I should do the math on that one of these days...!

[@richardmiller5818]

@@PeteRFNY 1985. 1986 and 1993

[@richardmiller5818]

3 times

[@PeteRFNY]

@@richardmiller5818 Wow, seemed like it could have been more...in the 80s it always felt like they were in it right up until the last week or so!

[@markravitz1684]

Finish 1st or go home!!!!!! Baseball today is a joke. It has become a watered down post season tournament. There would be no 1978 Yankees comeback in today's joke of a game

[@lordcolinb]

❤

[@kevinmadden1645]

A woman I once worked with turned 40 on this day .

[@roncaruso931]

Good old Frank Messer! Billy Martin. Had the heart of a lion. Roy White and Willie Randolph. Jackson. The great Mel Allen. The Scooter! Mr. Ford. Mantle. DiMaggio. Todays old timers days suck. All mediocre players.