Ghetto Kid Adopted by the Rockefellers

[G-Fafif]

Doing a little Google News Archive searching, I came acrossa wire service story that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal of April 8, 1974. Headline: "Yankees Like Shea Stadium". There are quotes from Thurman Munson, Graig Nettles and Pat Dobson on their preference for playing at Shea. Money passage is here:

Orphans? Forget it. The Yankees playing in Shea Stadium appear at the moment to be like a ghetto kid being adopted by the Rockefellers.

Funny, I don't remember that coming up in any of the MFYS II retrospectives.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And in 1978, NBC programming chief Fred Silverman debuts Jeff Harris and Bernie Kukoff's Diff'rent Strokes. "Where do you get these ideas?" he asked the producers during the pitch.

"Oh, they just come to us," Harris replied, shooting a conspiratorial smile at his partner.

"But great idea changing Graig and Thurman's names to Arnold and Willis, FS," Kukoff added. "That was genius. 'Arnold.' I'm cracking up already."

[dgwphotography]

Neither is the fact that Bobby Murcer couldn't hit a homer at Shea...

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm sure they didn't all feel that way.

I mean, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for Reg... may not be right for Thu-urm.

[Guest Edgy DC]

dgwphotography wrote: Neither is the fact that Bobby Murcer couldn't hit a homer at Shea...

That's interesting. Bobby Murcer is half a Hall-of-Famer at that point.

I'm sure they didn't all feel that way. I mean, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for Reg... may not be right for Thu-urm.

There you go.

[Fman99]

Someone drop me a line when the ghetto kid's sister starts doing the soft-core stuff, please.