Yanks baby recreates 81 Post cover with his own daughter in very same teensy sweatsuit: Brings me back
It’s like déjà vu all over again.One Yankees fan is celebrating his family’s own pinstripe legacy — as he has recreated an image that ran on the front page of the Post in 1981 of him as an infant posing in a Bronx bomber’s sweatsuit with his mom at that year’s final World Series game against the Dodgers.Howie Stephens saved the 43-year-old old outfit and dusted it off for the adorable new shot of him with his own daughter Vivienne, 4, whose stuffed bear is wearing the same tiny outfit from four decades ago as the team once again faces off against their rival from Los Angeles.
“It was great taking him there in his little warm-up suit.Everybody wanted to see him.
He was so cute,” Stephens’ mother, Kathleen Thomas, 76, recalled to The Post about bringing her three-week-old son to the history-making series.Thomas, her newborn and her husband had sat high up in the nosebleeds at Yankee Stadium to watch the Bronx Bombers take on the Dodgers on Oct.28, 1981 for the final game of the coast-to-coast series.
Unfortunately, the team lost, in what would be their last trip to the series until 1996.The Post first met the young family in a crowd of thousands who were waiting in line outside the old Yankee Stadium for the World Series tickets, which Thomas scored for an estimated $15 each — a steal compared to the jaw-dropping minimum $1,113 price for the 2024 series.The air was brisk and the stadium was filled with near-constant boos and groans, but little Stephens, gussied up in a teensy Yankees sweatsuit, mostly slept soundly as the Dodgers slaughtered the Yankees in a fate-deciding 9-2 game.“We weren’t at a winning game that day and we were in the nose bleeds section, and it didn’t even matter because we were all there together,” Thomas recalled.Just months after the disappointing game, the family packed up and moved to Dodgers territory — but has remained loyal to the Yankees for the last five decades.The Yankees are more than just a sports te...