Now that football's done I'm in spring training Yankee mode. With that in mind, here's a pretty cool, short, Buster Keaton film from 1928 that was posted over at the bronx banter blog called, "The Camera Man" Filmed when old Yankee stadium was only 5 years old. That was one huge ballpark. The story line is that he goes to film a game but doesn't realize they're on the road so he plays an imaginary inning inducing the hitter into a triple play and then he hits an inside the park home run. Buster had some wheels on him, he gets around the bases pretty damn quick. The guy knew his baseball, he throws to third and checks the runners at first and second just like Jeff Nelson used to do. He takes a nice brush back pitch to the noggin also so besides steroids and money, not much has changed with the game. Pretty much everything is changed from this old park to the one I used to go to and are now tearing down and then to the Brand new stadium but you can still see the #4 train going by the 161st street station. If I had a time machine I'd set that thing to the 1920's and definitely spend a few afternoons at the old park watching the babe and Lou Gehrig do their thing. I'd stay longer but they didn't sell beer at the parks in 1928, prohibition. I'd have to come back in the thirties.
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