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Sunday, September 09, 2007 |
Al Yellon Interview In The Chicago Tribune
Friend of the site Al Yellon rates an interview in the Chicago Tribune:
Yellon does not miss a home game. For a recent night game, he is in place at 4:45 p.m. In his backpack are his scorecard, a copy of "Who's Who in Baseball 2007," a Cubs media guide, blank scoresheets, emergency raingear, sunscreen, pencils, miscellaneous Cubs giveaways from games past and a faux throwback ball in case an opponent hits a home run in his vicinity. Seated around him are regulars with whom Al has attended games for decades. Other bleacher denizens, longtime acquaintances, will drop by to say hello and share rumors ("Jacques Jones traded?").Yellon attended his first Cubs game with his father on July 6, 1963. The Cubs lost 6-0 to the Philadelphia Phillies, "thus preparing me for a lifetime of failure," he jokes. Yellon still has the scorecard to that fateful game, along with the scorecards to the more than 1,950 games he has attended since.
"I went to Sox games, too," he says. 'The Cubs took hold because I would come home from school and watch them on TV in the afternoon. As we were growing up and growing in to baseball [in the 1960s], that's when the great Cubs teams started with Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Fergie Jenkins and that whole crew."
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