re: Greatest Play You’ve seen in Person

Rangers vs. Yankees probably 2005ish. Had the perfect angle for a Jeter being Jeter in his prime play. Chopped shot deep in the hole and he stabbed it off of a hop and turned, elevated and gunned down a runner. Would have been routine on TV but to see it live from just the right seats you appreciated how difficult it was.


Also, not a play but warm up drill. Back in the Oiler days. The Niners were in town. Right after Steve Young’s super bowl year. He and Jerry Rice are standing in the end zone. Rice on the back stripe of the end zone and Young on the goal line. Young is firing the ball at Rice, they are both standing flat footed and squared to each other. Rice is catching the balls with his palms facing the sky. One handed. Sometimes two handed, but basically flat handed he is letting the ball stick in his palm and moving his hands back with the ball to slow it down so he can catch the ball without dropping it. Just a weird little drill but it was amazing to watch. Young would zip the ball to either of Rices hands. Sometimes right at him and he’d have to keep his palms up and slow the ball down which by the time he stopped it he had guided the ball over his head.