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Moose Skowron: New York Yankees Great First Baseman Dead at 81

of the felicities of my position as an armchair baseball guy is that sometimes I can get out of the armchair and talk to my heroes.

Since the mid-1990s, I’ve made it a point to get a press credential for every Yankees Old-Timers Day and talk to the players. In that capacity, I’ve gotten to talk to some great players who are now gone: Bob Feller (what he was doing there I don’t know, but he was, so I did), Enos Slaughter (I’m pretty sure I was his last interview), Hank Bauer, and yes, Moose Skowron.

Skowron was always a terrifically nice man, loved to tell stories of his career and had the same haircut he brought to the big leagues in 1954. There are several fascinating “might have beens” in his career:

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