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809- Working At Yankee Stadium For 40 Years with Actor/Director/Author Stewart J. Zully

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Actor/Director/Author Stewart J. Zully  ("My Life In Yankees Stadium: 40 Years as a Vendor And Other Tales of Growing Up Almost Sane.") As an actor you've seen Stewart in Wolf (w/ Jack Nicholson), For The Boys (w/ Bette Midler), Bonfire of the Vanities (w/ Morgan Freeman) and Malcolm X (w/ Denzel Washington,) tells a fascinating story about being a vendor at Yankee Stadium for 40 years. One night, after the Yankees won the championship, Stewart ran the bases in the middle of the night with other vendors AND the cops! 

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Storyworthy. Today on the show, actor, director, and author Stuart J. Zully talks about working at Yankee Stadium for 40 years.

0:12.2

I worked in Yankee Stadium for 40 years. At that time, I had worked there for 25 years. And never did I have an experience like this.

0:22.9

This was the night that they won the championship.

0:25.9

That night, if your listeners remember, Wade Boggs got on a policeman's horse and rode

0:32.6

around the field.

0:35.0

I mean, it was so celebratory.

0:37.8

It was insane.

0:38.8

It was, you know, New Year's Eve times 10.

0:41.7

And then here I was with a bunch of cops running around the field.

0:47.0

Today on the show, actor, director, and author, Stuart J. Zully, talks about working at Yankee Stadium for 40 years. Stay close.

0:58.1

Hey, my name is Stuart J. Zelly, and you're listening to Story Worthy.

1:15.9

Well, Welcome to Storyworthy.

1:20.3

My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California.

1:27.8

Whether you're a longtime listener of the show of over 13 years, yes, that's right, 13 years. Or you're our new listener.

1:29.4

Welcome to Story Worthy.

1:31.7

I sure hope you guys enjoyed the story last week with comedy writer Mike Reese.

1:36.8

And when I say comedy writer, I mean that he wrote for The Simpsons, and he still writes for the Simpsons, for over 30 years.

1:46.4

So the guy really has a lot of wit, and you're going to love his story about, well, he

1:54.1

talks about traveling and he talks about writing, and he talks about his podcast, what am I

1:59.2

doing here?

2:00.1

But the story is about the fact that his book, a children's book, and he's written over 20,

2:06.7

this particular children's book got banned in not only Texas, but Massachusetts and Iowa.

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