... and I always saw the Series at the house of a friend who was a big Yankee fan and friends, at age eight, always being adversaries, I took the other side And if the Dodgers in the National League, ... why the Indians in the American? Because, I’m almost certain, of the ’54 World Series when the Indians played the Giants, 22 Off the Rim and as a Dodger fan I hated the Giants and thus embraced ... Willie Mays, say, and Carl Furillo for Hank Aaron, and Karl Spooner for Vinegar Bend Mizell and came up with a team of players all born in Alabama When I was nine years old my family had taken a trip...