Oldest living Yankee passes away
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Sep 18, 2009 
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Lonny Frey, thought to have been the oldest living Yankee, passed away on Sunday at his home in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, at the age of 99.
Frey played 15 years of professional baseball, including two seasons with the Yankees (1947-48). A three-time All-Star (1939, ’41, ’43), He played in three World Series, winning the title with the Yankees in ’47.
Tommy Henrich (96) is now thought to be the current oldest living Yankee, although Angel Berroa disputes that.
(C’mon, I had to get one more Berroa joke in there. Had to.)
hahahahaha (I’m talking about Berroa)
As for Frey, my prayers go out to his family.
Condolences to the Frey family…
Don’t worry, Theo will be sure to acquire Angel Berroa for SS next season.
(C’mon, I had to get one more Berroa joke in there. Had to.)
Pete will post here, but his handle will be hyperlinked to a boston.com blog.
And Pete, stop posting the congratulatory tweets from your Boston counterparts.
“Don’t worry, Theo will be sure to acquire Angel Berroa for SS next season.”
yeah, what’s up with the revolving door at shortstop with theo and the red sox ?
my guess is that they think they have to overpay to get offense at shortstop and they don’t want too, but the problem with that theory is that they have paid a ton of money there with renteria and lugo.
HAHAHA Nice one, Pete.
We’ll miss ya, pete!
Pete when do you officially leave?
Stop crying about Fredo leaving.
He did an outstanding job with this blog, but we all always knew he was a Bostonian at heart and just using us Yankee fans to get ahead in his career. So offer him congrats and get on with life.
Berroa will be the butt of many joke. What will Pete do if Berroa goes to Boston next year!?!
This is so awkward… re: Pete still posting when he’s gone in 2 weeks.
“but we all always knew he was a Bostonian at heart and just using us Yankee fans to get ahead in his career”
Then that move alone is the smartest thing I’ve ever heard of any Bostonian doing… Besides getting rid of John Smoltz.
Lonny Frey lived a long life. When he got up to the pearly gates I’m sure the first words he heard were, ‘your late’.
R.I.P.
Tommy Henrich (96) is now thought to be the current oldest living Yankee, although Angel Berroa disputes that.
(C’mon, I had to get one more Berroa joke in there. Had to.)
- Outstanding!
The only upside to this whole sad state of affairs is that we now get to turn the tables on the ‘Bunny’ and ‘RDM’ trolls who’ve attempted to spoil our fun.
Covering the Sox is Pete’s dream job.
Come on… if any of us were Red Sox bloggers and got a chance to go to a bigger paper to cover the Yankees, wouldn’t we?
The only upside to this whole sad state of affairs is that we’ll get the chance to turn the table on the “Bunny” and R_DM” trolls who’ve attempted to spoil our fun.
Classic Pete joke!! While I don’t really comment on the board often, I honestly visit it about 5 times a day to get my Yankees updates and can’t put into words how much I’ll miss you Pete! You have this rare talent of not only reporting the news but adding humour wherever possible. I’m pretty sure I’ll be following you even when you cover the Red Sox ‘cus I simply LOVE how you write! I will miss you when you’re no longer at LHYB! Boston is lucky to be getting you!!
STOP WITH THE ANGEL BERROA JOKES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. They were never funny and borderline racist.
and borderline racist.
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Say what? Latinos are far from the only ones who sometimes age quickly and have ridiculously receding hairlines.
Plus, Pete has already said Angel has no problems with it.
Lighten up, Francis.
It’s too early for Berroa jokes. It’s kinda like when a girlfriend breaks up with you, tells you it’s her, not you, and then makes an inside joke that only the 2 of you would get. It only makes you want her back more.
We’re still dealing with an open wound here Pete. Be gentle.
He did an outstanding job with this blog, but we all always knew he was a Bostonian at heart and just using us Yankee fans to get ahead in his career. So offer him congrats and get on with life.
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I am not getting involved in a discussion about this, because my attention span for it is limited, but this is the third or fourth time I’ve seen the word “used” here in the same, bizarre context.
How was anyone “using” anyone?
I mean, just, HUNHH???
The guy writes a baseball blog, people congregate and comment on it. Presumably, they get something out of doing so…. how is anyone being “used”?
It seems to me these comments say a whale about the people posting them – like you’re impicating yourself in some REALLY strange, emotional way that has nothing to do with the function of a blog, nor the bloggers relationship to the posters.
You sound like some spurned little lover.
Just off base and frankly, FRIGHTENING.
I enjoyed the blog, most of the entries, many of the posters’ comments, and sometimes there has even been stimulating baseball discussion.
That’s what I got from this blog, and I understand the blog will continue. But if it were to shut down, I still would have enjoyed my time here reading and commenting.
racist? The only thing being made fun of here is his age. And I am pretty sure the 31 year old Angel Berroa is younger than Pete.
Kudos to Sweeney and KJ
Can’t wait to hear how she does.
What’s really amazed me is the number of people who have been avid readers but rarely, if ever, posted that are coming out to wish Pete well and express their gratitude.
It’s a rare man indeed who impacts so many lives.
I don’t think it’s an understatement to say this is the end of an era.
I’m just thankful I found this blog at its nadir and was able to enjoy it to the fullest.
“Andrew”
Nauseating.
So I go to the stupid Boston Globe web site blog(thank God for this blog) and made the following comment… This blog is so lame. I’m sure Pete will be able to change the culture around here. You guys will enjoy all his posts….. GUESS WHAT, they deleted the content…. I guess they found it offensive. This is gonna be really messed up
Hey everybody!
Congrats on the job with the Boston Globe!!
We’ll miss you here! I hope the Boston fans over there appreciate your opinion as much as we do!
Also, Happy Rosh Hashanah to Suzyn Waldman and everyone celebrating!
If we somehow go in a bad streak from tonight on….. Can’t wait to see how many people will be blaming Pete lol
Shelly needs to get more playing time.
The guy is great in the clubhouse and a team leader.
To be honest, I had no idea Tommy Henrich was still alive. They always seem to use interview footage of him from like 1986
Red Sox. “Nauseating.”
You do realize that Sweeney, Craig, and Feinsand all have the lineups posted on their Twitters before Pete does on here most nights, right?
The world is not going to end, folks.
Keep phucking that chicken.
Does anyone here own a Subaru Legacy? I know some moronic posters from another forum that sound a lot like you people.
The only thing I find troublesome in the entire affair is Pete leaving in two weeks, meaning that they couldn’t wait until the end of the postseason for this move to be made, something that would have made so much more sense all around.
It is obvious at least to me that the Globe, a newspaper that is seriously reeling, sees Pete as their key to a lot more internet participation, increased revenues as a result, and a re-emergency into the world of solid newspapers, albeit online newspapers. Anyone who doesn’t know that the Boston Globe is in serious trouble and doesn’t have anywhere near the cachet it did in the past hasn’t been keeping up. I said it before and I will say it again – the Globe needs Pete a lot more than Pete needs the Globe.
Joe,
I’ve been registered on the Globe’s website since its inception. Only once have I ever had a comment appear,even on political articles. It’s not user friendly.
“Does anyone here own a Subaru Legacy? I know some moronic posters from another forum that sound a lot like you people.”
Subaru-hate?
No, mostly love.
Hate for dumb posteres, that’s all.
I was looking for a strange coincidence. Nevermind me.
Get Yer Damn hands Off Of her!:
Not a problem. Our blog world has been turned upside down and it’s disorienting. BTW, I have a Subaru and love it.
I drive a Dodge Stratus!!
“– Verducci didn’t agree with Angels manager Mike Scioscia and closer Brian Fuentes that the umps were intimidated by Fenway Park. Verducci thinks the Angels were just frustrated.”
This was from an earlier post but I really wanted to respond to it by saying that anyone who buys this bunk didn’t watch the game in question. I stopped thinking Verducci was god when he co-authored the Torre tattletale tome – oh yeah, and when he couldn’t stop kissing the backside of gee, what’s her name? You know, the one who never made the best seller list with her “sensational” portrayal of the life of Arod. That’s how fast she’s disappeared as a household name.
Ah, isn’t karma a beach.
trisha,
When he gets the opportunity to cover the team he grew up rooting for, gets to move close to his family, and get a promotion to a much bigger paper… I don’t think it is in his best interest to make conditions on when he starts working.
Maybe they wanted someone to cover THIS postseason rather than starting next year.
Latinos are far from the only ones who sometimes age quickly and have ridiculously receding hairlines.
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You should see the hairline of French-Canadiens after about 30. Me included!
I think the Berroa jokes are entertaining.
“Joe
September 18th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
So I go to the stupid Boston Globe web site blog(thank God for this blog) and made the following comment… This blog is so lame. I’m sure Pete will be able to change the culture around here. You guys will enjoy all his posts….. GUESS WHAT, they deleted the content…. I guess they found it offensive. This is gonna be really messed up”
I used to post on the globes sox forum site. They no tolerance for anyone who posts anything bad about the sox or anyone connected with them. The 1st amendment is not alive and doing well there. As a yankee fan you are rarely treated well. Those people grew up hating everything yankee and still do. Once in a while you will find a normal person there that will talk baseball with you though. Just have to filter through the rest of the garbage that sox fans spew. And it is alot. You would think yankee fans were beasts with 9 eyes. It will be hard to go there and post in PA’s blog or anywhere else there. You will be filtered out more than likely unless you are saying how great the sox are. And you know yankees fans just can’t do that.
Pete will still get to cover the Yankees in October if the Globe has someone at the World Series.
Tim, true dat. Which gets me back to the point that the Globe needed Pete more than Pete needed the Globe. They are certainly not lacking for sportswriters! But they don’t have a wildly popular on-line blog. Remember when the Yankees played the Sux and Pete encouraged blog sharing with some Boston site. A few of our posters went there and said there was nothing going on. Online is the future for newspapers. Pete is the king of online sports blogs.
So who is Pete replacing at the Globe? Or is he just an extra writer (a la Anthony McCaaron for the Yankees at the Daily News)?
I read the Torre book. I didn’t buy it, I got it as a gift.
It is in no way, shape, or form, a tattletale book. It is a well-researched, if highly biased toward Torre for obvious reasons, book on the Yankees dynasty and their subsequent downfall with Joe Torre at helm. I didn’t like the idea of it before I read it but now that I’ve read it I could say that I’ve lost no respect at all for Joe Torre.
I don’t remember…who’s replacing Pete here??
You think this is bad?
Wait until Mariano retires.
Grown men reduced to sniveling piles of goo? Check.
I always laugh at the Berroa jokes(corny as they are)and hope Sox fans appreciate your sense of humah.
Jim the VT Yankeefan
September 18th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Latinos are far from the only ones who sometimes age quickly and have ridiculously receding hairlines.
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You should see the hairline of French-Canadiens after about 30. Me included!
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Maybe that’s because the French Canadian diet is among the worst on the planet.
Forget the fries. I did a fairly big piece on Alexandre Daigle when he was still a junior hockey phenom. The press box in the rink was unreal – every reporter was smoking – and chain smoking, at that – and they were serving – get this – butter and sugar sandwiches on white bread.
Man.
Daigle was a very colorful interview. Too bad he never lived up to his billing.
butter and sugar sandwiches on white bread?
Paula Dean would deep-fry that, y’all.
It’s too early for Berroa jokes. It’s kinda like when a girlfriend breaks up with you, tells you it’s her, not you, and then makes an inside joke that only the 2 of you would get. It only makes you want her back more.
We’re still dealing with an open wound here Pete. Be gentle.
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Jason, that was brilliant! I’m going to miss his rapier wit. I hope Pete’s sense of humor is applied equally to Sox players. Starting with Youk…
Thanks Pete!