Bruce's Journal

Bruce Slutsky was born in New York City in 1949. I retired six years ago after working as a Science/Engineering Librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark for 25 years. I was married to Karen until she passed away in February 2021. I have a son Lee who is now 35 years old. I am very much interested in the popular music of the 1960s, especially Bob Dylan and the Beatles. I am interested in rock and roll radio. I am an enthusiastic fan of the New York Mets.

Saturday, August 4, 2007

We Saw A-Rod's 500th Career Home Run

Back in February a bought tickets for two Yankee games. I obviously could not predict what would happen 6 months in the future. In the first inning today at Yankee Stadium Alex Rodriguez hit his 500th career home run. He is the youngest player ever to reach that milestone. The Yankees went on to win 16-8 in a four hour game. I just hate long games. There were many deep counts, foul balls and pitching changes that made the game drag on,

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: You seem to have all the luck this year at the ball games.; August 6, 2007 at 6:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Valuable resource of career news summaries: http://ng2000.com/ng2000bb/YaBB.pl?num=1221634536; September 20, 2008 at 11:08 PM