Your Prof Is A Yankees Fan

With all but one of you from Illinois, most of you are probably Cubs or Cardinals fans with perhaps a White Sox boosters in the mix. I grew up in New York City and have been a very loyal Yankees fan since my grad school days at Northwestern back in the late 1970s, a way to stay loyal to my roots. So this picture, on the front page of the NY Times Web site, kind of grabbed me.

Jeter Nears a Record Gehrig Couldn’t Savor - NYTimes.com via kwout