I guess that's a Yankee T-shirt poking out.
The biggest highlight for Yankee fans came before the actual game. It was Old Timer's Day, the last in the original Yankee Stadium, and Mickey Mantle hit a home run off of White Ford. In the regularly scheduled game Ron Blomberg did not play, and the Yankees fell to Oakland 7-3. Gene Tenace hit a 3-run HR for Oakland.
In other news, an Icelandic ship rammed a UK ship in one of the few violent incidents in the "Cod Wars" over fishing rights between the two nations; the Prince of Cambodia sent a peace proposal to the United States, and, just a mile-and-a-half from Yankee Stadium, a performer named DJ Kool Herc played at an apartment party in the Bronx in what is widely considered the first public performance of hip hop music.
Mantle hitting a home run off of Ford. That must have been fun to watch.
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