Pinstripe Alley · Jun 6, 2022
Chasing Ghosts: Aaron Judge and 62 home runs
Everything about Aaron Judge is larger than life. Sitting in the dugout or in the post-victory handshake line, he often looks just too big to be on a baseball field. The very first time he stepped in an MLB batter’s box, he hit a baseball off the window of a restaurant 446 feet from home plate.
And all that’s fitting, since Yankee lore is also larger than life. Myths and stories about Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle could, and have, filled more books than I can list. Sam Miller once spoke about how hard it was to take Ruth seriously as a real human being, a real subject of history, since there is so much apocrypha swirling around the real man, like a ship passing through fog.