Five years ago this week, on Valentines Day 2007, this blog, Lady At The Bat, was born. A short post about the start of Spring Training that week has evolved into over 750 posts about the Yankees, Major League Baseball and, at times, my life as a Yankee fan. This week I'm taking a look back at some of those posts, and I invite you to do so as well. First up, a post from August 14, 2007: My reaction to the death of 'The Scooter,' Phil Rizzuto:...When I heard today that Rizzuto had passed away at the age of 89, I started thinking about all the years I listened to Scooter and his partners on 1010 WINS (and later 770 WABC) and watched them on WPIX Channel 11 (for a while, known as 11 Alive!). Everyone knows Scooter was a real character...Read Entire Post
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