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Originally posted by LauraLee
As a child i grew up at most of the local sporting events (come on i had 3 older brothers...). Anyways, my Dad had a hookup with the Yankees and when they used to come down to Fort Lauderdale for spring training one of his friends would bring us in thru the players parking lot and then were allowed to roam as pleased thru the dugout, and such. Man was that exciting! My bro and i were just little toe heads, I was 5 and he was 6. I will never forget the sheer size of some of them.. for me Dave Winfield may as well been a giant. Ricky Henderson with his badass baby blue mercedes and big grin. My idol however was Don Mattingly, he was my God. I am pretty sure he was my first crush.... i told my Dad i would someday marry him...
Anyways, one day while my brother and i were hanging around a guy came up and asked my Dad if it would be ok for him to take us back to his trailer for some goodies (since it was spring training they used trailiers as offices). I was ultra shy at the time and not to happy about my Dad letting us be taken by a stranger.
Turns out the big guy was Steinbrenner and he thought my brother and i were "the most adorable Yankee fans". He gave us both Yankees jackets- the ones the players wore (i still have mine).
It's the picture that is priceless.. my Dad took it of Steinbrenner inbetween my brother and i, but i was so shy and nervous that instead of standing next to Steinbrenner i clutched on to his leg.
The Yanks win the World Series and i am wearing that jacket here to work..... 
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That's an awesome story!!!
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