Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of me being a full-blown died-in-the-wool Yankess hater.
In '64 the Cardinals still played in old Sportsman's Park - pretty close to a clone of Wrigley. In a wild, crazy, insane pennant race they won (or, the Reds and Pirates choked during the last week) - but the Yankees had made a bunch of public comments about how they hoped the Cardinals wouldn't win because the small stadium would cut into their % of the gate. Of course, the Cardinals and Bob Gibson beat 'em in 7 (Gibby won games 5 and 7 with three days rest in between, and both were complete games).
Besides - I'm a liberal. We are always rooting for the underdog when it comes to a confrontation with the imperialist oppressive Yankee dogs ...
