Chris CrockettI Found Out What Hank Steinbrenner Was Doing At 22... Playing Dandy Yankee
June 15th 2010 18:00
"Help Ma!! I'm Gonna Shit My Pants!!"
(From the WSJ)
The biggest bust in Yankees history was 7 feet tall, made $40 every home game and spent most of his brief career in the upper deck.
From 1979 to 1981, the Yankees employed a mascot named Dandy. He was big and blue and a spectacular failure—a historical oddity for a proud franchise that has collected 27 world championships but would just as soon forget he even existed. Which, to be fair, isn't terribly difficult to do.
So that’s what that half-ass, Hank Steinbrenner, was doing when he was 22!
Georgie got him the gig to play dress up and walk around the Stadium shitfaced disguised as “Dandy Yankee” in his early twenties. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
I mean, look, I think Red Sox mascot, Wally, is an abomination of a mascot. Lacks toughness, was a hermit for 50 years living inside of a wall, and regularly gets his green ass kicked by, Raymond, the Rays mascot. I’m not a huge fan of any mascot, but at least Wally entertains the kids.
Yankee Dandy was called by his creator, “sassy & full of Yankee spirit”, a “dyed in the wool Yankees fan.” Well, the thing looked like the Phillie Phanatic after a two-month bender who decided to crawl out from under the Brooklyn Bridge and hit up the Stadium to start his career as a panhandler.
Only positive thing I can say is, at least the Yankee faithful kicked this smelly looking thing in the ass after a couple of seasons.
Hank has gone on to bigger and better adventures as the blowhard part owner of the Yanks. Nice rebound, chief. Shit, anytime you can hand in the cans of Busch Light you were hiding under Dandy’s gooch for some solid high end Jameson on the rocks and a tie, you win.
Chuck
~TCFB~
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