Yankees Magazine: Family Vacation

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• All your favorite teams and sources in one place
• Being a Yankee means joining a one-of-a-kind brotherhood that lasts a lifetime
• More by MLB
• New York Yankees: Legends of Baseball Cruise Unites Past and Present Players
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They were all invited because they were all Yankees. It’s what Derek Jeter wore, barely at all changed from the days of Thurman Munson or Whitey Ford or Mickey Mantle. Joe DiMaggio wore pinstripes, as did Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. It really is about that uniform, the symbol of enduring greatness that dates back to a time even before the Yankees had won a thing. It was a really big confidence in themselves, that they knew they could win.

Ron Blomberg and Legends Of Baseball Celebrity Cruise

The first book, Designated Hebrew is fantastic autobiography. And that’s a fitting coda to the first Legends of Baseball Cruise, which is scheduled to sail again this coming December. Your mileage may vary on some of the names and the feats and the Q ratings, but that’s almost entirely beside the point. The thing is, he’s already most of the way there. At last year’s Old-Timers’ Day, Tymon and her staff welcomed almost the entire 1998 team back to Yankee Stadium. It didn’t matter that Mike Figga and Todd Erdos don’t exactly have the name recognition of Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.

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Perhaps even more difficult would be liking the Yankees. “Now, you hated the Mariners and you hated the Orioles! ” Putting on the pinstripes, though, helped him understand something about the team he had been conditioned to loathe. And one totally impromptu Wiffle ball game in Cozumel.

Being a Yankee means joining a one-of-a-kind brotherhood that lasts a lifetime

The players span 50+ years of baseball and include many stars from several World Series teams. Old-Timers’ Day, to Nelson’s point, is a brief if celebrated blip on the calendar. For many of the guests, it’s a quick trip into and out of town. Which is why the former players on the December cruise around the Caribbean so relished having a full week together. On April 6, 1973, Blomberg grabbed his bat and stepped into the batter's box to face Luis Tiant of the Boston Red Sox.

Nelson, who pitched for that ’98 team, was there, too. He has been around baseball enough to know that some things are the same everywhere and others are different. Yankees fans expect to win every night and will let their own players hear it in bad times -- something, he notes, Cardinals fans would never do. For a guy dressing in the uniform of the Nationals or the Padres, Babe Ruth is still the Sultan of Swat, the Great Bambino.

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I heard about the Legends of Baseball Cruise and took the opportunity to interview one of my childhood baseball favorites. It was a thrill talking to Blomberg and I am proud to help spread the word on this great cruise. In 1975, he appeared in just 34 games, followed by one in 1976 and none in 1977.

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“A team’s broadcaster should have the team in their soul,” he says. “There are guys who do great jobs that go to other cities, and they immerse themselves in the history. Every other week, we bring you exclusive interviews with Yankees players, coaches, alumni or front office executives.

The guest list is full of interesting baseball figures with fun stories to tell. Plus, there are some beautiful locations and fun activities along the way. Despite the injuries, Ron put up excellent numbers in limited playing time. Overall, he batted .302 with 52 homers, 224 RBI's and 184 runs scored, in just 461 games played.

None of the players on board are in the Hall of Fame or Monument Park. History can exist on the margins; indeed, every step on a big league field, to say nothing of a pennant-clinching walk-off homer or the first-ever at-bat by a designated hitter, is meaningful. Monument Park and the New York Yankees Museum teem with history, but neither purports to be definitive, to tell the entirety of Yankees lore. Cabrera, Blomberg, Rivers and “El Duque” are four of the attractions on the first Legends of Baseball Cruise.

Aaron Boone authored one of the most famous moments in Yankees history when he walked off the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. At the time, as documented in photos and videos that seem to play on loop around the ballpark, he wore No. 19. Cabrera actually left the ship early, before it returned to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He didn’t feel like he could spend a full week away from batting cages and ballfields, not with so much work to do for the 2024 season. On the five days he spent on board, though, he learned so much about life, and about the future he can look forward to. What was notable, though, was how the camaraderie on the ship spanned the generations.

Whenever Cabrera retires, wherever he goes, whatever he does, he’ll always have this. As such, Kay and Sterling are more than familiar and well-prepared voices to guide viewers and listeners through nine innings. When something happens on the field, Kay says that he instinctively knows how to draw a connection to what came before. And, he points out, Sterling -- now 85 years old -- has even more institutional memory. His second book, The Captain and Me was even more of a labor of love.

They bring great content for Yankees’ fans.Love the expansion into new podcasts too. Legends Family,Our Beloved Umpire Dale Shuck has passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones. Blomberg's latest endeavor is again related to baseball, but with a unique twist (or you might call it a curveball). Currently he is promoting the Legends of Baseball Cruise.

After that season, he signed as a free agent with my beloved Chicago White Sox. Despite a great start in which he hit an Opening Day game-tying home run, Blomberg battled injuries and was limited to 61 games. That would be it for his career, as the White Sox released him at the end of the season. Future iterations of the Legends of Baseball Cruise are anticipated to continue fostering connections and passing down the Yankees legacy to future generations.