Was Donnie the last Yankee home-grown slugger? He doesn't quite fit that mold, though. Perennial MVP candidate (in his prime), sure, but not in the same category as, say, your Mantles or Thomes (who never played for the Yanks).
Anyway, a sports website I read often had a cool article called "The Majesty of Watching Aaron Judge Mash." It highlights five homers that show different facets of the kid's homer game, if such a thing exists.
they also had some cool links to photos, which I will shamelessly hijack and display here.
Like, here's a guy and his little brother, playing on opposite teams:
No wait, that's the (former) behemoth known as Ryan Howard, an otherwise huge human being who doesn't seem to be good at baseball anymore. In fact, he's retired, unless any contender wants an otherwise huge first baseman who used to be great at crushing baseballs.
I'd imagine it's rare when he's overshadowed.
How about: here's a guy and his son, dressed in matching baseball outfits:
The video clips of the homers are pretty cool, and it's fresh to have youth that can ball...and I'm dutifully ignoring the small sample size of all this, but it pretty cool the Yanks are making these kinds of stories instead of this or this kind.
And I know those are both A-Rod articles, and I don't really mean to poop on his time as a Yankee, because it was rather fantastic, beyond the ugliness...just sayin' this a bit more fun and less full of baggage.
