Jamie Cryan รีทวีตแล้ว
"In the early 1950s, when I was a young guy on the Yankees, some of the players started living in North Jersey year-round.
I can’t remember any traffic on the George Washington Bridge then.
My buddy Phil Rizzuto encouraged me to move here from St. Louis, where I was from. Phil said there’d be more opportunities if I lived East; all the players had to find work when the season ended.
So Carm and I lived for a few years in Bergen County, then moved to Montclair, where we’ve been ever since.
All those years Phil lived in Hillside, and we did a lot together.
We worked off-seasons in the 'American Shops' clothing store in Newark, and later opened a nice bowling alley in Clifton—'The Rizzuto-Berra Lanes'.
Our bowling alley even had a section for babysitting while people bowled.
Carm said she picked Montclair because of the good schools and because there were so many kids playing outside, a nice place for our three boys to grow up.
In Montclair we lived near Larry Doby, a good friend and great ballplayer for Cleveland who also moved here for family reasons.
My son Dale and his son Larry Jr. became good pals, and Larry was always at our backyard pool."
Yogi Berra.
“Little kids can bowl by themselves, even if they can’t add.”
Yogi Berra.
Other players opening their own bowling center in the late 1950’s to early 1960’s were:
Nellie Fox —'Nellie Fox Bowl'.
Gil Hodges —'Gil Hodges Lanes'.
Mickey Mantle —'Mickey Mantle Bowling Center'.
Stan Musial and Joe Garagiola —'Red Bird Lanes'.
Duke Snider –'Duke Snider Lanes'.
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