The Yankees had them this year, Ellis, Munson, Klimkowski, Tepadino, Lytle, and now it's those

pitches that have been hanging those curveballs all spring and that's maybe not giving 100% in

spring training. They start bearing down now and now you sort of separate the men from the boys

and I think the Yankees have some great young players, but now is when you find out.

Well, I'm sure that the youngsters are anxious to find out how they're going to do,

but I've never seen such confidence in the Yankee team since 1964.

The last year the Yankees won the pennies.

They are there.

They're really up.

You know, it's the first game of the season.

I have 161 more after this. But they're really up. I was lucky enough to pitch 20 minutes of batting

practice, and those fellas are really on edge. I know they figure they got a good chance to win it all.

Some of them are kind of mad because some of the writers picked them to finish third. Well, they got a tough job. They got Ballamore, Boston, who they're playing today, Detroit.

It's a tough league.

They're in a tough division, really.

And I expect they're going to have a real good team this year.

Well, I'm sure that the fans are going to see some exciting baseball,

and it's unusual for a team to bring five rookies,

the fellas you named North with them. And today we're

going to have Johnny Ellis, who is going to play first base. That was quite a surprise. It was,

and I know John's a little nervous. His first opening day with the Yankees, Thurman Munson, his first

opening day. So this is going to be a few nervous fellows down there for an inning or two.

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