![]() ![]() I don't think I've had that moment since." ![]() So I just screamed out, 'Gil, you're my favorite player,' and he turned around and said, 'And you're my favorite fan.' At that moment, all was right in the world. ![]() Listen to your parents.' When he started to walk away, I suddenly realized I had fantasized about this moment and had said nothing. "Finally, he said 'I have to go now' then said to me: 'Keep practicing. My father kept answering for me," Amoruso says. 14 must be Gil Hodges.' He spent about 10 minutes with me, signed my yearbook and told me what a good guy I was. ![]() "My father knew the usher, and he got us a spot right by the railing by the Mets dugout," recalls Amoruso, now 56, of Oakdale. He was only 6, the Mets were the new team in town, and his father even made sure Marino was decked out in a Mets shirt with a big 14 on the back, the number of the boy's favorite player, Gil Hodges. Marino Amoruso remembers in detail the first ballgame his father took him to a half-century ago. ![]()
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