ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The New York Yankees' charter flight to Florida on Thursday had a familiar name in the cockpit.
Captain Schmidt, as in Delta pilot Dwight Schmidt, the father of Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt.
"It was a lot of fun," Clarke Schmidt said before Friday night's game at the Tampa Bay Rays. "I mentioned it to a few guys and then we got there, it kind of like spread like wildfire. It was kind of like interactive a little bit. A lot of guys got to see things they never got to see as far as like going up to the cockpit.